How to Use prime target in a Sentence

prime target

noun
  • Those juicy yields have made cat bonds a prime target for a few niche hedge funds.
    — Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The age group is a prime target for fraudsters.
    — Sarah Agostino, CNBC, 15 May 2026
  • The trades have become a prime target.
    — Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • For marketers, those in the preparation stage are the prime target.
    — Jacquelyn Lamar Berney, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Their prime target is our roses’ tender new foliage, buds and blooms and the fresh new basal breaks at the base of the plant.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Such ads-as-entertainment blending in would become a prime target in the years ahead.
    — Jamie Bryan, Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Due to their high-profile positions, politicians seem to be a prime target for these attacks.
    — Kim Elsesser, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • The area around the prison, on the city’s northeast side, is a prime target for redevelopment.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The Saya de Malha Bank has been a prime target for such ambitions.
    — Ian Urbina, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • That could make DeSantis a prime target for lower-polling hopefuls.
    — Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 7 May 2023
  • This big pot of money has become a prime target for members of Congress who are looking for more farm bill funding.
    — Kathleen Merrigan, Fortune, 8 May 2023
  • This open-air design makes large power transformers a prime target for long-distance attacks by bombers, missiles, and drones.
    — Thomas Popik, Foreign Affairs, 3 Feb. 2023
  • That means BATMs are likely to remain a prime target for hackers.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Later this year, the startup has a second test flight planned to study a space rock up close that could become a prime target for a real mining mission.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Armor is a prime target, and a liability.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 18 May 2026
  • It was known that lipids are sensitive to pressure, so cell membranes were a prime target for investigation.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, WIRED, 20 Oct. 2024
  • As a result, the island will become a prime target in the event of a major war, as adversaries try to destroy airfields and harbors.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 June 2023
  • That critical role makes Treasury a prime target for fraudsters seeking to steal from taxpayers.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Why travel Wi-Fi is a prime target Travel creates a perfect storm for these kinds of attacks.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Reading someone's desk was a favorite past-time, and since Beverly kept the editor's call sheet, her desk was a prime target.
    — Brad Schmitt, Nashville Tennessean, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Healthcare is a prime target for cyberattacks, and breaches are costly—not just financially, but in terms of trust.
    — Arpan Saxena, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Russian banks are not known to have been a prime target for Ukrainian drones over the four years of war that followed Moscow’s invasion.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2026
  • Russian banks are not known to have been a prime target for Ukrainian drones over the four years of war that followed Moscow's invasion.
    — ABC News, 27 May 2026
  • Net neutrality was immediately seen as a prime target to be struck down without Chevron.
    — Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 2 Jan. 2025
  • India is a prime target for Tesla having eclipsed Japan last year to become the third-largest market for passenger cars.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Eighty percent of military aid to Ukraine flows through one airbase in eastern Poland, and so that base would probably be a prime target.
    — Peter Schroeder, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Located across the street from the presidential palace, a prime target of the gangs, the hospital was soon forced to close its doors and evacuate its patients.
    — Jacqueline Charles and, Miami Herald, 10 July 2024
  • None other than Gary Lamont had been a prime target of the investigation.
    — Jordan Michael Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
  • But the battleground state could become a prime target in the immediate days before elections, with little time for remedy.
    — Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2024
  • That’s the driving force behind the scams, and that’s why the over-60s are such a prime target, according to the FBI.
    — Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026

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