adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a primal/instinctive/basic/natural urge (= a natural urge that all people have )
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Every animal has an instinctive urge to survive.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
father
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A comparable reaction to the sadistic tyranny of the primal fathers would have been natural to the sons.
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He took up the links again between Moses and the killing of the primal father at the end of his life.
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In terms of man's cultural development he represents a royal epiphany of the primal father , an authentic reincarnation of primal despotism.
horde
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For it was in the primal horde that the first murder was performed, and this has haunted mankind ever since.
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We should recall that man did not originally evolve in a liberal democracy, but in the primal horde .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the primal truths of human existence
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What primal urge makes these men want to ride the bull?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He rose and then dived within her, starting slowly as if to the beating of a primal drum.
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I begin with the recovery of primal speech.
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Looking at snakes, we seem to be looking backwards in time and deep into our own primal selves.
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Rubber wetsuits they regarded with distaste as contraceptive sheaths that would interfere with the primal experience.
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The moment I read it I knew I had found the traces of the primal spirituality I was looking for.
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The tableau is no longer primal feasible and one further pivot as shown. is required to achieve an optimal tableau in which.
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They say that at a certain point it will stop expanding and start contracting again, back into the original primal seed.
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To others it is the wavy symbol of the primal waters attached to the cross of matter.