How to Use primacy in a Sentence

primacy

noun
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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
  • No one on the show seems to question the primacy of beauty.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • In such cases, the rights of the child take primacy over the parents’ right to decide what’s best for their daughters and sons.
    — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2018
  • In such cases, the rights of the child take primacy over the parents’ right to decide what’s best for their offspring.
    — Danica Kirka and Sylvia Hui, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • In such cases, the rights of the child take primacy over the parents' right to decide what's best for their offspring.
    — Danica Kirka and Sylvia Hui, chicagotribune.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • For both Russia and the US, nukes have retained their primacy.
    — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
  • 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 thing is, the only thing Wolf was one-sided about was the primacy of truth, which is the side on which journalists are also supposed to be.
    — Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 29 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Wilson, too, anchors her views in the primacy of conscience.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 13 Oct. 2024
  • The album’s primacy was in trouble as soon as iTunes and the iPod encouraged shuffling.
    — New York Times, 9 May 2018
  • These are estimates of actual costs incurred and not forecasts and offer a sobering reminder that ignoring the primacy of natural systems can have a direct financial cost on us all as well.
    — Saleem H. Ali, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
  • These developments weakened the institution of the family, which lost its primacy as people fled rural kin networks and the production of life’s necessities moved from the household to the factory.
    — Ben Tarnoff, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2024

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