How to Use primacy in a Sentence

primacy

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  • She has established primacy in her field of study.
  • Civil law took primacy over religious law.
  • That primacy hit the wall during the last year and a half.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2021
  • For a time, the junta seemed to be keeping threats to its primacy at bay.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Is their intent to move us somehow out of East Asia and take primacy of the region?
    — CBS News, 1 Feb. 2023
  • After decades of primacy, R&B was under threat in the late 1980s as hip-hop took the nation by storm.
    — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2021
  • Of course, Tomas feels the urge to reassert his primacy in Martin’s life as a result.
    — Vulture, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The books that made sense to me at the time were those that questioned the primacy of the heteronormative family.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Gone are the days when the United States’ across-the-board primacy was unambiguous.
    — Stephen G. Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
  • In reality, the war in Ukraine should be a stark reminder of the limits of armed primacy.
    — Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
  • The worry is that the Lynch case could create a precedent around the primacy of one legal system over the other.
    — Chris Stokel-Walker, Wired, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The Church itself, thanks in large part to the exertions of men like Anselm, was able to lay claim to the ancient primacy of Rome—and uphold it, what was more.
    — Tom Holland, Time, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Not long ago in the Arab world there was a modicum of unanimity on the primacy of the Palestinian cause.
    — Ben Wedeman, CNN, 3 Dec. 2020
  • And the not-a-Nobel award’s emphasis on the primacy of the free market has been damaging at times.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The school of shareholder primacy would come to be taken up as gospel by the business ecosystem.
    — Abigail Disney For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 20 Oct. 2020
  • This, of course, is a partial list, and every item on it will be competing for primacy.
    — Jeff Shesol, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Agatha Christie, as the world’s best-selling novelist, has a primacy in these regards and a kind of IP that is super strong.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The primacy effect is how people tend to remember the first time something happens, or the first item on a list.
    — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 21 Apr. 2020
  • But the most significant trend in this report is that the U.S.’s primacy in the ecommerce market place has slipped.
    — Lumin, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Which, given the primacy and power of the Trump base within the GOP, is not an insignificant thing.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 14 July 2021
  • Plus, no network will have the primacy ESPN boasted at its peak.
    — Jacob Feldman, SI.com, 27 June 2019
  • Putting them in order, let alone selecting one out of the crowd for primacy would feel, well, immature and even risky.
    — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 16 July 2019
  • The rise of collectives might also signal a shift in the primacy of certain arts over others.
    — New York Times, 13 Oct. 2021
  • One is the primacy of the needs of parents and families in policy-making.
    — Yana Kunichoff, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2022
  • Meanwhile, some see a race to claim primacy between those who still believe in Damascus and those who want to just be done.
    — oregonlive.com, 22 June 2019
  • Each bite reveals new flavors as the many forms of umami jostle for primacy.
    — New York Times, 17 Dec. 2021
  • In the past decade, the primacy of single-family zoning has been challenged.
    — Eric Kober For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Hitler never understood the primacy of the sea power that would allow the U.S. to fight in two theaters at once and supply its allies all the while.
    — Arthur Herman, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
  • But Democrats in the Trump era have doubled down on their commitment to maintaining the primacy of American power across the globe.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Aug. 2024
  • But what pushes it above the rest is the utter drive of both Max and Herman, as love and competition gain primacy over every aspect of their lives.
    — Vogue, 10 Sep. 2024

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