primary source

Example Sentences

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Objective primary sources about the sisters, and their spirits, are in such short supply as to be essentially nonexistent.

From Literature

The primary source of this added water is accelerated melting of land ice, especially from Greenland.

From Science Daily

“The magnitude, persistence, and breadth of buying activity have materially exceeded prior peaks, underscoring retail’s role as a primary source of incremental demand in early 2026,” he told clients on Wednesday.

From MarketWatch

“Little Amélie” is its sixth animated feature — its primary source of revenue thus far, though it’s in the final stages of developing an animated television series.

From Los Angeles Times

Frank Dikötter is an iconoclast historian who immerses himself in the primary sources more thoroughly than any other Western scholar of 20th-century China.

From The Wall Street Journal