How to Use prime target in a Sentence

prime target

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  • Those juicy yields have made cat bonds a prime target for a few niche hedge funds.
    — Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Their prime target is our roses’ tender new foliage, buds and blooms and the fresh new basal breaks at the base of the plant.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
  • That means BATMs are likely to remain a prime target for hackers.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Given the status of Apple’s smartphones and the lure of a cheap deal, the release of a new iPhone is a prime target for scammers and bad actors online.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Such ads-as-entertainment blending in would become a prime target in the years ahead.
    — Jamie Bryan, Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Major live sporting events are a prime target for hackers.
    — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2023
  • An immigrant in the U.S. who posts about a missing family member is a prime target, Hernández said.
    — Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2024
  • This big pot of money has become a prime target for members of Congress who are looking for more farm bill funding.
    — Kathleen Merrigan, Fortune, 8 May 2023
  • Later this year, the startup has a second test flight planned to study a space rock up close that could become a prime target for a real mining mission.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 9 Apr. 2023
  • As the loader on a forward-starboard 32-pound gun, Pease was exposed to tremendous amounts of heat and smoke from cannon fire—and was a prime target for the enemy ship.
    — James Hagengruber, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • As a result, the island will become a prime target in the event of a major war, as adversaries try to destroy airfields and harbors.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 June 2023
  • That could make DeSantis a prime target for lower-polling hopefuls.
    — Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 7 May 2023
  • Eighty percent of military aid to Ukraine flows through one airbase in eastern Poland, and so that base would probably be a prime target.
    — Peter Schroeder, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Located across the street from the presidential palace, a prime target of the gangs, the hospital was soon forced to close its doors and evacuate its patients.
    — Jacqueline Charles and, Miami Herald, 10 July 2024
  • India is a prime target for Tesla having eclipsed Japan last year to become the third-largest market for passenger cars.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The water, which could be extracted and used for drinking, breathing and for rocket fuel, makes the area a prime target for long-term exploration of the moon and beyond, NASA says.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2023
  • This open-air design makes large power transformers a prime target for long-distance attacks by bombers, missiles, and drones.
    — Thomas Popik, Foreign Affairs, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Beijing must soon begin to import more of its industrial inputs, and Southeast Asia is a prime target to fulfill those needs.
    — Rebecca Liao, Foreign Affairs, 27 July 2015
  • None other than Gary Lamont had been a prime target of the investigation.
    — Jordan Michael Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The Nordic region has become a prime target for big energy users thanks to the abundance of clean energy, with hydropower dominating the power mix.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Europe, 3 June 2024
  • But the battleground state could become a prime target in the immediate days before elections, with little time for remedy.
    — Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Planetary scientists view Enceladus as a prime target in the search for extraterrestrial life because beneath its icy crust the moon houses a salty ocean—a good medium for the ingredients of life to mix.
    — Byron Cowen, science.org, 30 May 2023
  • Bakhmut has for months been a prime target of Moscow's grinding eastern offensive in the war, with Russian troops, including forces from the private Wagner Group, inching ever closer.
    — Mstyslav Chernov, ajc, 5 Mar. 2023
  • This would not be the first time Virginia state officials have sought to bring a professional sports stadium to Potomac Yard, a former rail hub in Alexandria that has for decades been eyed as a prime target for redevelopment.
    — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Harvard, the nation’s oldest and richest university, has long been a prime target for critics of higher education.
    — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • President Joe Biden is expected to announce his reelection run, and Harris will be a prime target for Republican attacks.
    — Chris Megerian, ajc, 2 Apr. 2023
  • President Biden is expected to announce his reelection run, and Harris will be a prime target for Republican attacks.
    — Chris Megerian, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2023
  • This is because the salamanders’ unique home is a prime target for mountaintop removal mining — when mountains are blasted open by explosives to access underground coal formations, according to the center.
    — Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The neighborhood itself occupies prime real estate near the city center, making the working-class neighborhood a prime target for gentrification.
    — Griffin Shea, CNN, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Europa is a prime target for exploring planetary habitability, thanks to Jupiter’s tidal heating processes that keep Europa balmy enough to potentially harbor life.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2024

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