How to Use primordial soup in a Sentence

primordial soup

noun
  • Some will have seen the character emerge from the primordial soup at the Groundlings.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
  • The Grateful Dead were the soundtrack of that era and were born of this primordial soup.
    — Brian Halligan, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Scientists studying how life arose from the primordial soup have been too eager to clean up the clutter.
    — Quanta Magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
  • If art history is a tree of life, then cryptoart has been evolving in a primordial soup that’s nearby.
    — Matthew Schneier, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The building blocks of atomic nuclei, quarks and gluons, floated around loosely in a kind of primordial soup.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 23 May 2026
  • No, this is like Clark Kent goes into the phone booth and eats himself entirely to make a nice juicy primordial soup.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Popular hypotheses credit a primordial soup, a bolt of lightning and a colossal stroke of luck.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Jan. 2014
  • There are some key factors here that scientists now believe are critical to a successful primordial soup.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The discovery added to the evidence that the primordial soup from which life on Earth arose may have been seasoned with amino acids from pieces of asteroids.
    — John Rennie, Quanta Magazine, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Four billion years ago, the first molecular precursors to life emerged, swirling about in Earth’s primordial soup of chemicals.
    — Quanta Magazine, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Or did her mutating account of events generate itself from a primordial soup of liquor, panic, guilt, and conjecture?
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
  • But this seething primordial soup—the stuff of future galaxies, stars, planets and people—only lasted a few microseconds.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Like trying to get dry inside of a swimming pool, two amino acids would have had a hard time losing water to come together in the primordial soup of early Earth.
    — Nicolás M. Morato, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The team added various molecules to their simplified primordial soup and looked for combinations that would allow membranes to form.
    — Sofie Bates, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2019
  • That blend of geography and history explains the primordial soup that gave birth to Peruvian cuisine.
    — Simeon Tegel, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The primordial soup is considered to have been a near-perfect liquid, which means its quark and gluon contents flowed together as a smooth, frictionless fluid.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Yet, despite all of this association with poison and death, hydrogen cyanide (cyanide in gas form) is suspected to have played a major role in the primordial soup of life.
    — Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2022
  • That means a primordial soup with all the same ingredients like different amino acids and electrolytes will respond very differently to sunlight on a small pond versus a large ocean.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 13 Dec. 2022
  • That means a primordial soup with all the same ingredients like different amino acids and electrolytes will respond very differently to sunlight on a small pond versus a large ocean.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Solar wind can form water on interplanetary dust, potentially adding to the primordial soup that gave rise to life on Earth, scientists say.
    — Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2014
  • Then just add liquid water to its surface and let the primordial soup simmer for millions of years as energy from starlight gradually cooks up the chemical building blocks of life.
    — Emma R. Hasson, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Like abiogenesis in the primordial soup, sometimes the conditions all have to align for a technology to become usable by the general public.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2018
  • The first insects emerged about 412 million years ago, but the biblical language puts that dragonfly—along with Adam and Eve—in the primordial soup.
    — Christian Wiman, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
  • The small fluctuations in microwave radiation result from tiny density differences in the hot, bubbling primordial soup.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 23 May 2026
  • Scientists continue to attempt to take snapshots of this primordial soup to understand the characteristics of quark-gluon plasma.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Cyanide has been widely considered an important component in the primordial soup, a solution of organic compounds responsible for the origin of life.
    — Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Talk Talk emerged from the primordial soup of 1980s synthpop and was initially compared to Duran Duran.
    — Hazlitt, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Once that primordial soup cooled and became transparent, the ripples—which drew matter to them and formed the foundations for galaxy clusters—became locked in, separated by a characteristic distance.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 11 Sep. 2019
  • But recently a team of researchers realized that--much like that first primordial soup sitting in a bowl of Earth--the experiment’s container played an underappreciated role.
    — Sarah Vitak, Scientific American, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Each of their four studio albums was a Rosetta Stone tossed into the primordial soup, rippling outward, sending aftershock after aftershock through popular music and culture.
    — Patrick Lyons, Billboard, 12 Mar. 2021

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