When optimizing the interpreter, we focused on handling primitives efficiently to speed up common operations.

Scholars debated whether the primitiveness of the artifacts indicated a lack of cultural development or a distinct artistic choice.

The villagers lived primitively, relying on foraging and simple tools.

By comparing related words across dialects, she reconstructed the primitive that lay behind them.

The primitive artifacts discovered in the valley offer rare insights into daily life at the dawn of human history.

Anthropologists debated whether the primitivenesses evident in the artifacts indicated an early cultural stage or simply functional simplicity.

The primitivity of the artifacts suggested they belonged to an early phase of the culture.

Anthropologists debated whether the tribe's art reflected primitivities cherished by the elders or modern influences.

The researcher proved that the function is primitive recursive by explicitly constructing it from the zero function, the successor function, and the projection functions using only a finite number of compositions and recursive steps.

In many programming languages, an integer is classified as a primitive type.