as in ancient
relating to or occurring near the beginning of a process, series, or time period
all life on Earth supposedly came from a primordial ooze in existence many millions of years ago
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Recent Examples of primordial
Unfortunately, the primary object of Eggers’s vampire’s attention, Lily-Rose Depp’s Ellen Hutter, is a victim of a destiny foretold (a scenario that recurs throughout all of Eggers’s films, which strive to push modern, secular mindsets away and immerse viewers in primordial, irrational fears).
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Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2024
Every play or two, someone else glanced askance from the bar, as if Cheers had been invaded by some primordial beast from the bottom of Boston Harbor.
—Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 24 Dec. 2024
Assemblies of towering, primordial boulders mixed with lazuline waters and wide stretches of downy sands are features of this paradise.
—Paul Rubio, AFAR Media, 23 Dec. 2024
Are the primordial organic molecules in those clouds lost in the early days of a new solar system, blasted apart as young stars blaze to life?
—Elise Cutts, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2024
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Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2024
Every play or two, someone else glanced askance from the bar, as if Cheers had been invaded by some primordial beast from the bottom of Boston Harbor.
—Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 24 Dec. 2024
Assemblies of towering, primordial boulders mixed with lazuline waters and wide stretches of downy sands are features of this paradise.
—Paul Rubio, AFAR Media, 23 Dec. 2024
Are the primordial organic molecules in those clouds lost in the early days of a new solar system, blasted apart as young stars blaze to life?
—Elise Cutts, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for primordial
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California landslide appears to leave 3 multimillion-dollar homes teetering on edge of cliff Some of the peninsula is part of an ancient complex of landslides that has been moving for at least the past six decades, according to NASA.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
5 Feb. 2025
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With planned lunar missions set to send astronauts around the Moon next year, followed by a landing soon after, the discovery of these canyons offers an unprecedented opportunity to collect ancient geological samples.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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Houde said these mammoth animals are a primitive group of proboscideans ('elephantoids') from which modern elephants evolved.—
Joseph J. Kolb,
Fox News,
18 July 2017
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Many are primitive and remote, and don’t have restrooms or water.—
OregonLive.com,
OregonLive.com,
12 July 2017
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To accomplish that, the farmers had to persuade their clients to embrace a new aesthetic: less polished and more primal, twining and frondy, founded on blossoms that might be too lush and soft to endure weeks of refrigerated storage but could be guaranteed to look and smell like nothing else.—
Maryn McKenna,
Scientific American,
13 Feb. 2025
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But my wife, a native Californian, sensed something more innately — some primal signal in her neurons screaming: Danger.—
Josh Eells,
Rolling Stone,
13 Feb. 2025
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These places maintain the largest amount of intact primeval forest and the highest populations of bears, wolves and lynx in all of Europe.—
Jamie Lang,
Variety,
26 Jan. 2025
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Does Dellinger’s death suggest that Utah Territory, and by extension America itself, will always be driven by primeval conflict?—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
10 Jan. 2025
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Researchers have been able to examine the soft tissues of other prehistoric marine reptiles.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Feb. 2025
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Everyone's favorite candidate for the identity of the Loch Ness monster, the plesiosaurs were a group of prehistoric marine reptiles that lived in oceans throughout the world between 203 and 66 million years ago.—
Ben Coxworth,
New Atlas,
7 Feb. 2025
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In early European trading, France's CAC 40 increased 0.2 percent, Germany's DAX gained 0.3 percent, and Britain's FTSE 100 remained flat.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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One person suffered serious injuries during a rollover crash on Interstate 84 in Southington early Tuesday that left the highway shut down for hours.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
11 Feb. 2025
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“Primordial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/primordial. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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