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Six example sentences with primacy, each labelled with its topic.
Kant granted duty primacy over happiness, and every later argument in the book is arranged around that ordering.
Philosophy
Emergency departments give airway management primacy; nothing else on the checklist is attempted until the patient can breathe.
Medicine
For a century the academy gave history painting primacy, and portraits hung in the smaller rooms upstairs.
Art
The constitution holds primacy over every other statute, and a court must strike down any law that conflicts with it.
Law
The new coach gives defense primacy, and every practice opens with thirty minutes of closeouts before anyone shoots.
Basketball
Central bankers grant price stability primacy, treating employment as a goal to pursue only once inflation is tamed.
Economics
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