1
as in derivative
taken or created from something original or basic
history textbooks are secondary sources for historical information and do not represent original research
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2
as in minor
of little or less value or merit
we need to focus on getting the groceries bought and the rent paid—everything else is secondary
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as in dependent
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Recent Examples of secondary
Alyssa Davis, People.com, 19 June 2025
Automation now enables easier decision-making for this type of secondary asset market.
—Jay Bhatty, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
His 21-to-3 ratio of primaries to secondaries is by far the widest in the NHL, with Winnipeg’s Mark Scheifele (20-to-7) and Los Angeles’ Phil Danault (19-to-7) the only ones within spitting distance.
—Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
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Adjective
However, in the show, there’s a secondary twist to the shock ending.
—Alyssa Davis, People.com, 19 June 2025
Automation now enables easier decision-making for this type of secondary asset market.
—Jay Bhatty, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Noun
Beyond the roughly 20 billion dollar annual U.S. venture capital market, the firm can now tap into the 100 trillion dollar-plus global public equities market and the rapidly growing 100 billion dollar-plus secondaries market.
—Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
His 21-to-3 ratio of primaries to secondaries is by far the widest in the NHL, with Winnipeg’s Mark Scheifele (20-to-7) and Los Angeles’ Phil Danault (19-to-7) the only ones within spitting distance.
—Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for secondary
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On its current trajectory, the surest promise that generative AI offers is not creating new originators, but massively scaling up the production of derivative art.—
Sheldon Pearce,
NPR,
17 June 2025
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The integral counts much more than the derivative, thankfully, meaning there are errors which eventually correct themselves.—
Steven Strogatz,
Quanta Magazine,
12 June 2025
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Show more And on Monday, hospital staff accomplished a minor medical feat: doctors birthed triplets in a cesarean section procedure that the delivering physician said would have been complicated and risky even in the best of times.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
20 June 2025
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There were some minor disadvantages to this method, Boyle admits, mostly due to Apple’s user-friendly camera software.—
Jake Kleinman,
Wired News,
20 June 2025
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has also authorized the voluntary departure of military dependents from locations across the Middle East, according to a U.S. official.—
Shannon K. Kingston,
ABC News,
12 June 2025
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The mayor received $4,000 in child tax credits for her two young sons, who were claimed as dependents on her 2024 tax form, and benefited from an $8,800 personal exemption for filing jointly with her husband, Conor Pewarski.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
31 May 2025
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Told that Indigenous people were evolutionarily inferior to white Europeans and Americans, visitors accepted the idea that colonialist progress would soon condemn these groups to extinction.—
Shoshi Parks,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 June 2025
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The Pacers are just way more inferior and the Thunder got stagnant all of a sudden.—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
17 June 2025
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Another supervisor acknowledged yelling at a subordinate who hadn't listened to instructions.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
6 June 2025
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Read More Jail official forces subordinates to perform free labor at his MA home, feds say In Massachusetts, Thomas Brady, a former jail official, is accused of forcing employees to perform free labor at his home, according to federal prosecutors.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
31 May 2025
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Fast enough to run with tight ends in the slot and twitchy enough to beat offensive linemen at the point of attack, Campbell is a great blitzer and boasts big-time potential as a junior.—
Nick Baumgardner,
New York Times,
18 June 2025
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Even the biggest Pacquiao fan can admit, the odds are against the newly inducted Hall-of-Famer to pull off the win against a man who is 16 years his junior, but most are interested enough to tune in to see.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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Out on the mean streets of O.C., the coming changes have sparked some trepidation.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
11 June 2025
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Changing vaccination guidelines, ever-evolving variants and strains, threats to health insurance and more mean COVID is still very much a regular conversation on the lips of lawmakers, regulators and the general public.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
5 June 2025
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Boelter was the subject of a days-long man-hunt involving hundreds of local, state and federal law enforcement after the shocking deaths of Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband.—
Meg Anderson,
NPR,
16 June 2025
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Ford’s rise and fall is the subject of a new documentary in Netflix’s Trainwreck series.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
16 June 2025
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“Secondary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secondary. Accessed 28 Jun. 2025.
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