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Meanings of primal fear in English

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Usage of primal fear in English
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But when I met her eyes, I saw this raw, primal fear.
Bloodthirsty
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It's a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits?
Reuters
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Mather saw that now in Feige-flamesshooting higher, egged on by primal fear.
Ice Like Fire
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I totally underestimated the level of primal fear swirling around us.
World After
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An illogical primal fear crept up from his belly to his rational mind.
The outsiders
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Seventeen minutes into my wait, anxiety switched to primal fear.
Bloodthirsty
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Like early religion, it is a device enabling us to control our primal fear.
Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
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Suddenly all thoughts of sex were wiped out by the primal fear of being stalked.
Night tides
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She had an almost primal fear of reavers.
The Wyrmling Horde
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That primal fear of dissolution survives in metaphor.
The white war: life and death on the italian front 1915-1919
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McNabb's primal fear of M&A stems from an unsatisfying stint unwinding flawed leveraged buyouts in the 1980s.
Reuters
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She slowly raised a knife high above her head, striking a tremor of deep, dark, primal fear.
Cara mia - book one of the immortyl revolution
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With considerable effort, Jenny quelled the primal fear that began to rise within her, and she went to Lisa.
Phantoms
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The horrors of the battle at the ice house, or perhaps the flesh-forming, had rewoken some primal fear in her.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
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It's linked to a primal fear about the predator that since Jaws, and perhaps well before, has followed it around.
The Guardian
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Tilly hesitated, clearly torn between his sense of duty and order and the primal fear that had risen in the building.
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Primal fear across language varieties
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