primitive stage

collocation in English

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primitive
adjective
uk
/ˈprɪm.ɪ.tɪv/us
/ˈprɪm.ə.t̬ɪv/
relating to human society at a very early stage of development, with people living in a simple way without machines or a ...
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stage
noun[C]
uk
/steɪdʒ/us
/steɪdʒ/
a part of an activity or a period ...
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(Definition ofprimitiveandstagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Although it took quite some time to complete the picture sketched above, it should still be considered as a ratherprimitivestageof the theory.
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Yet, we are at a veryprimitivestagein our understanding of evolution, and its exploration challenges the traditional laboratory approach.
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Differences among extended preferences would be completely explained by theprimitivestageof psychological knowledge.
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Communal association represented aprimitivestageof historical development: history could not retrace its steps.
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It is at a veryprimitivestage, and it is difficult work to carry out.
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It became clear that energy conservation and insulation were in a veryprimitivestage.
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The whole question of crowd control is something over which we are still at aprimitivestagein this country.
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It represents, indeed, not a final, but aprimitivestagein the development towards world order.
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A tax on any instrument of progress deserves to be classed with the old hearth and window taxes which represented aprimitivestagein our economy.
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The song was in its mostprimitivestage.
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Fixation at aprimitivestageof development or lack of development of specific intrapsychic structures is not adequate to explain the characteristics of narcissistic personalities.
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The cultural development of the country was thrown back to theprimitivestage.
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In 1598, aprimitivestagewas built in the middle of the yard, measuring 39ft7in m by convert25.
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The primitive stages in curing the condition in humans were through the clinical experiments.
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The construction method in the earlier primitive stages, is very different from the latest stages.
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