primitive
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The first real TV sales pitch, which ran before a Dodgers-Phillies game in 1941, was primitive: a 10-second shot of a still photograph hawking Bulova watches.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
He said that while there is "little solid data" on the Hoveyzeh's warhead, it is thought to use a more "primitive" impact-fuzed high-explosive warhead, meaning it would detonate on or after hitting a target.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
In some cases, these factories are surrounded by membranes and serve as sites for DNA replication, resembling a primitive version of a cell nucleus.
From Science Daily • Feb. 19, 2026
But investors looked past the primitive nature of the tool toward a future when generative AI tools like this are how games are made.
From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026
Do you picture it as an untouched, green wilderness with a small scattered population of primitive people, or with no people at all?
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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