priming

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While speaking to Earth via a video link on Thursday, mission specialist Koch mentioned there had been a slight "priming" issue with the toilet.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

As Barron’s wrote last November, the company has been priming investors for the loss of Apple’s sales for years, and it may already be factored into the stock price.

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

Taken together, these two lines of research—the broad immune priming revealed by Covid mRNA vaccines and the precision targeting achieved by cancer-specific mRNA therapies—are beginning to converge.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025

Their work further supports research in developing a germline-targeting strategy for priming the immune system to elicit a bNAb called VRC01.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2024

She loved it when her father taught her the tricks like priming the carburetor that would keep the temperamental machine on the road.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly