How to Use priming in a Sentence

priming

noun

• The pump in the faucet is self priming, and features an anti-siphon valve.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 8 Aug. 2022
• Cherbonnier is also a fan of the Reyn Base Serum for skin care and makeup priming.
  — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 7 Mar. 2022
• The first shot acts as a priming dose for the immune system and is not believed to offer much protection on its own.
  — Allyson Chiu, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Dec. 2020
• Happily, the audience does not in fact need such priming.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 25 June 2017
• A few months later came the revelation that a classic finding in the field of social priming had failed to replicate.
  — Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine, 17 May 2017
• The piece, by Jerry Useem, centers around research on ‘power priming‘.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2018
• Keynesian pump-priming is not what the economy needs now.
  — N. Gregory Mankiw, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• But much of that immunologic priming did not happen last year.
  — Tara Haelle, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2022
• After passing the audition process, the trainees moved into a dorm and lived together during their four to six-year priming stage.
  — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 17 Sep. 2020
• People who received the half-dose priming shot did best, with 90% efficacy.
  — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 25 Nov. 2020
• Researchers say the outcomes are the result of a process called priming, in which a cultural reminder shifts a person's frame of reference from that of the host culture and language to those from home.
  — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2013
• In the absence of early priming (and in the presence of the right genetic mutation), a later infection can trigger leukemia.
  — Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 23 May 2018
• Without such microbial priming, the drugs may only offer a futile prod.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 5 Nov. 2017
• No amount of pump-priming will fully reopen restaurants, nightclubs and offices while the virus remains prevalent—nor would that be desirable.
  — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2021
• Each sea turtle began as fiberglass with a rough factory priming until the artists worked their magic by painting on the blank canvas—er, turtle.
  — Vicki Salemi, Chron, 19 Apr. 2023
• Some psychologists say the pendulum has swung too far against social priming.
  — Tom Chivers, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2020
• Many publications report on young up-and-comers to watch, but Forbes has put out a 50-over-50 list, which can give you the career-equivalent of the positive age-priming that Levy advocates.
  — Caroline Ceniza-Levine, Forbes, 18 July 2022
• Preparation begins Monday, and painting and priming will start Oct. 3.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2022
• The designs of Indian miniatures were first drawn in rough outline in charcoal, which was subsequently painted over with sanguine followed by a very thin coat of white priming.
  — Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2021
• Decades of ideological priming has taught many to believe that Wall Streeters and tech company founders are geniuses—the best people to plan everything from which stocks to buy to how to solve the climate crisis.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2020
• Whether or not social priming exists is a very interesting question.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2015
• But later infections, without the initial priming, can trigger leukemia in those with the genetic mutation.
  — Meera Senthilingam and Jessie Yeung, CNN, 22 May 2018
• For some vaccines, for some of the studies and for some subpopulations, there seems to be evidence coming forward, more about people who are having a failure of the primary series and evidence on whether or not a third priming dose would help.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 11 Aug. 2021
• Keep In Mind: Sanding and priming is recommended, especially for covering dark surfaces.
  — Addie Morton, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 May 2023
• In addition to the new cosmetics, Keys Soulcare already offers a cleanser made with manuka honey, a powder exfoliator with lactic acid and an illuminating priming serum with niacinamide.
  — Robyn Merrett, PEOPLE.com, 6 May 2022
• The essential functions of storage, pruning and priming of memories that occur in all systems—the ocean, viruses and humanity alike—sustain some memories while erasing others, better preparing for the future.
  — Members Of The Ocean Memory Project, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2020
• The Apple logo prime led people to act more creatively on subsequent study tasks compared to subliminal IBM logo priming—but only when creativity was a part of the participants’ self-descriptions.
  — Nita Farahany, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
• That psychological priming is just one way stores indirectly influence your behavior and encourage you to part more readily with your money.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 2 July 2022
• The researchers found that the high-fat diet induced hyperalgesic priming — a neurological change that represents the transition from acute to chronic pain — and allodynia, which is pain resulting from stimuli that do not normally provoke pain.
  — Stephen Fontenot, Dallas News, 1 Feb. 2023
• This technique, called priming, prompts a phenomenon whereby exposure to one stimulus influences a response to a subsequent stimulus.
  — Grace Lordan, Fortune, 18 July 2022

Last Updated: 18 Aug 2024