primitive

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Even Cook hadn’t seen the primitive versions of the company’s most popular devices since the days when he was responsible for the supply chain to manufacture them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 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

“I lived in the house in the most primitive of scenarios,” she revealed.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

It likely helped early proteins embed themselves into primitive membranes, offering insight into how the earliest cells may have operated.

From Science Daily • Feb. 10, 2026

Africa’s long occupation before the colonization of Eurasia a million years ago might have counted for nothing anyway, because protohumans were at such a primitive stage then.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond