Example sentences for: primacy

How can you use “primacy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Ptolemy (second century) was the first and boldest in a long succession of spin doctors for the primacy of human beings.

  • But even as a "multiracial" category blurs the color line, it can reaffirm the primacy of whiteness.

  • Among the recurring themes: his belief in the primacy of the individual over the group ("[My work] tries to reveal the extent to which each of us is responsible for his own fate") and his intense, conflicted Americanism ("I am too vindictively American, too full of hate for the hateful aspects of this country, and too possessed by the things I love here to be too long away").

  • Pollsters speak of both the "primacy effect" and the "recency effect," meaning that the first and last choices are more likely to be chosen, particularly when there is a long list of possible answers.

  • This tantalizing suggestion of a scaled-down papal office was seized on by the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission this May in a report that suggested Anglicans should accept a circumscribed papal primacy as a "gift to be shared."


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