(Usually followed by `to' or `for') on the point of or strongly disposed.
1 Paradee presents third up and looks primed to turn the result around.
2 In 2005, a generation primed for action got the politics of delusion.
3 From Detroit to Dallas, even the oil establishment is primed for change.
4 If a primed cache is less likely, inlining becomes a better choice.
5 THEY have the perfect blank canvas: ripped bodies primed for peak performance.
6 She clearly wasn't in the best of moods or primed for conversation.
7 That suggests Hekla is primed to go off in the near future.
8 I can get primed and ready to climb on the coldest days.
9 The orator speaks to masses of individuals, already well primed with herd-poison.
10 The guards primed their weapons and distant gunfire reverberated in the hallway.
11 It felt like an explosive, primed to go off at any moment.
12 These newly recruited T cells are phenotypically distinct from those primed earlier.
13 I primed the syringe and pushed the antibiotics into the IV line.
14 Mackenzie did not stir, but ordered fusees primed and the canoe gummed.
15 Cipriani is primed to reignite England's backline in partnership with Owen Farrell.
16 The day is also primed for some warm moments in romance too!
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