primordial
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In its primordial form, liberalism was a political belief that the building block of society is the individual—an idea tethered loosely to the Christian notion that every single human being contains a divine spark.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Their idea involves the explosive death of a rare type of black hole known as a "quasi-extremal primordial black hole."
From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026
Symbols lose their value if we forget where they came from, if we lose connection with their primordial origin.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
As he admired the innards of a primordial iPhone, Cook found himself surrounded by artifacts that trace the history of Apple from a startup in a garage to the most iconic company in America.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
We had flown the little spacecraft beyond its physical capabilities, zipped past jagged mountains and over the gouges and tears of primordial bombardment, admired all the moon’s craters, its mares, and its mountains.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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