primeval
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Extrapolating backward in time, Lemaître proposed the idea of a primeval atom: a singularity from which the universe emerged in a uniquely hot, dense state.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
Both are made of the same primeval matter, and both are the same age and size.
From New York Times • May 27, 2024
For example, how much primeval forest has been cleared for an agricultural product or how the land was previously used.
From Science Daily • Apr. 18, 2024
The primeval compulsion inside him that he can’t name flares.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 7, 2023
Yossarian was alone in a ponderous, primeval lull in which everything green looked black and everything else was imbued with the color of pus.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Vocabulary lists containing primeval
The Call of the Wild
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The Red Pyramid
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