How to Use primacy in a Sentence

primacy

noun
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Which, given the primacy and power of the Trump base within the GOP, is not an insignificant thing.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 14 July 2021
  • 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
  • Each bite reveals new flavors as the many forms of umami jostle for primacy.
    — New York Times, 17 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • That white stories of abuse are given primacy is also of a piece with the racial terrorism at the roots of SBC traditions.
    — Audrey Clare Farley, The New Republic, 30 May 2022
  • This comes from the paragon of shareholder primacy himself.
    — Sarah Keohane Williamson, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2022
  • What’s taken the place of shareholder primacy is a more diverse set of goals, with aims like helping to avert climate change.
    — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 30 May 2023
  • One that comes to mind immediately is the primacy of China and Asia.
    — Brad McMillan, Forbes, 17 May 2022
  • The Houthis could even be seeking to compete with Hezbollah for primacy among the pro-Iranian Arab militias in the axis.
    — Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2024
  • What’s most troubling, then, is not just the primacy that some coiners place on the freedom to transact above other, more pro-social rights.
    — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2022
  • A year after the confluence of Covid-19 and the protests following the murder of George Floyd, the city is a changed and changing place, with scars and fears and hopes all competing for primacy.
    — John Leland, New York Times, 5 July 2021
  • The fight signifies how companies have taken the place of nations in the battle for space primacy.
    — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2021
  • And then there are those who want to sort of fall back on shareholder primacy and talk about the imperative of driving returns.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Whether her own children will understand the primacy of their mother’s career, the jury is still out, says Bazelon, ever the lawyer.
    — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2022
  • But in the last few years, references to shareholder primacy began to slide.
    — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 30 May 2023
  • One reason for the primacy of metro Milwaukee in GOP primaries is simple math: these four counties provide about 30% of the vote.
    — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2022
  • Some Mainers, and many academics and advocates, agree on the primacy of getting military-style weapons off the streets.
    — Jenna Russell, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Debussy’s contribution to the war effort, for example, was to assert his belief in the primacy of French music.
    — Hugh Morris, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Star wars Space technology is also key to military primacy.
    — Jean-François Morizur, Fortune Europe, 8 Mar. 2024

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