primaries

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a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosenprimary election
one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird´s wing
(astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it
coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit
of first rank or importance or value
not derived from or reducible to something else
most important element
of or being the essential or basic part
of primary importancebasal

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