How to Use prime target in a Sentence

prime target

noun

• Those juicy yields have made cat bonds a prime target for a few niche hedge funds.
  — Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2024
• Their prime target is our roses’ tender new foliage, buds and blooms and the fresh new basal breaks at the base of the plant.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
• That means BATMs are likely to remain a prime target for hackers.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2023
• Such ads-as-entertainment blending in would become a prime target in the years ahead.
  — Jamie Bryan, Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2023
• Major live sporting events are a prime target for hackers.
  — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2023
• This big pot of money has become a prime target for members of Congress who are looking for more farm bill funding.
  — Kathleen Merrigan, Fortune, 8 May 2023
• Later this year, the startup has a second test flight planned to study a space rock up close that could become a prime target for a real mining mission.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 9 Apr. 2023
• As the loader on a forward-starboard 32-pound gun, Pease was exposed to tremendous amounts of heat and smoke from cannon fire—and was a prime target for the enemy ship.
  — James Hagengruber, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
• As a result, the island will become a prime target in the event of a major war, as adversaries try to destroy airfields and harbors.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 June 2023
• That could make DeSantis a prime target for lower-polling hopefuls.
  — Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 7 May 2023
• Eighty percent of military aid to Ukraine flows through one airbase in eastern Poland, and so that base would probably be a prime target.
  — Peter Schroeder, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2023
• Located across the street from the presidential palace, a prime target of the gangs, the hospital was soon forced to close its doors and evacuate its patients.
  — Jacqueline Charles and, Miami Herald, 10 July 2024
• India is a prime target for Tesla having eclipsed Japan last year to become the third-largest market for passenger cars.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023
• The water, which could be extracted and used for drinking, breathing and for rocket fuel, makes the area a prime target for long-term exploration of the moon and beyond, NASA says.
  — George Petras, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2023
• This open-air design makes large power transformers a prime target for long-distance attacks by bombers, missiles, and drones.
  — Thomas Popik, Foreign Affairs, 3 Feb. 2023
• Beijing must soon begin to import more of its industrial inputs, and Southeast Asia is a prime target to fulfill those needs.
  — Rebecca Liao, Foreign Affairs, 27 July 2015
• None other than Gary Lamont had been a prime target of the investigation.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
• The Nordic region has become a prime target for big energy users thanks to the abundance of clean energy, with hydropower dominating the power mix.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Europe, 3 June 2024
• But the battleground state could become a prime target in the immediate days before elections, with little time for remedy.
  — Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2024
• Planetary scientists view Enceladus as a prime target in the search for extraterrestrial life because beneath its icy crust the moon houses a salty ocean—a good medium for the ingredients of life to mix.
  — Byron Cowen, science.org, 30 May 2023
• Bakhmut has for months been a prime target of Moscow's grinding eastern offensive in the war, with Russian troops, including forces from the private Wagner Group, inching ever closer.
  — Mstyslav Chernov, ajc, 5 Mar. 2023
• This would not be the first time Virginia state officials have sought to bring a professional sports stadium to Potomac Yard, a former rail hub in Alexandria that has for decades been eyed as a prime target for redevelopment.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
• Harvard, the nation’s oldest and richest university, has long been a prime target for critics of higher education.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• President Joe Biden is expected to announce his reelection run, and Harris will be a prime target for Republican attacks.
  — Chris Megerian, ajc, 2 Apr. 2023
• President Biden is expected to announce his reelection run, and Harris will be a prime target for Republican attacks.
  — Chris Megerian, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2023
• This is because the salamanders’ unique home is a prime target for mountaintop removal mining — when mountains are blasted open by explosives to access underground coal formations, according to the center.
  — Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 25 Jan. 2024
• The neighborhood itself occupies prime real estate near the city center, making the working-class neighborhood a prime target for gentrification.
  — Griffin Shea, CNN, 5 Mar. 2023
• Europa is a prime target for exploring planetary habitability, thanks to Jupiter’s tidal heating processes that keep Europa balmy enough to potentially harbor life.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2024
• Turing, a prominent gay man once privy to top-secret international military intelligence, would have been a prime target for investigation, or worse.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2023
• When Google got hit with a $2.7 billion antitrust fine over its comparison-shopping practices, Microsoft—previously a prime target for EU antitrust enforcers itself—was partly responsible.
  — David Meyer, Fortune Europe, 8 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Oct 2024