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  • Pay extra attention every time there's any mention of Energon, All Spark, the Dynasty of Primes (the 13 elder Transformers, known as the Primes, who power the All Spark by destroying the Sun in unhabitable planets), Sun Harvesters and the Matrix of Leadership.

    unknown title 2009

  • "Primes" are the prime lenses, the focal lengths that we all know and love -- the 50mm, the 30, the buck twenty.

    LEVERAGE Week 6 Rogers 2008

  • "Primes" are the prime lenses, the focal lengths that we all know and love -- the 50mm, the 30, the buck twenty.

    Archive 2008-05-11 Rogers 2008

  • Unless I get an idea like "Primes," which had enough of a fantasy angle that I could sell it to F&SF, while being character-based and political enough to interest me.

    Lewis Shiner Interview 2005

  • Unless I get an idea like "Primes," which had enough of a fantasy angle that I could sell it to F&SF, while being character-based and political enough to interest me.

    Archive 2005-09-01 2005

  • Connoissances Utiles, "the" Pantheon Littéraire, "and the system of" Primes "-- premiums, that is -- to be given, by lottery, to certain subscribers in these institutions.

    The Paris Sketch Book William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • They fought with the ferocity of desperation, but they were not prepared for two angry Primes who had plenty of fighting skills and the willingness to use them.

    Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011

  • “But you're listed as one of the Primes,” Solomon says.

    Filth and Splendor: A Love Story Marshall Moore 2011

  • And Superboy-Primes wall punching ALSO reset certain aspects of the time stream, right?

    Hero History: Mon-El | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • He and Niko were close to becoming Primes themselves, as was Thor.

    Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011

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