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
• 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
• That means BATMs are likely to remain a prime target for hackers.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2023
• Given the status of Apple’s smartphones and the lure of a cheap deal, the release of a new iPhone is a prime target for scammers and bad actors online.
  — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
• Such ads-as-entertainment blending in would become a prime target in the years ahead.
  — Jamie Bryan, Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2023
• Major live sporting events are a prime target for hackers.
  — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2023
• An immigrant in the U.S. who posts about a missing family member is a prime target, Hernández said.
  — Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2024
• 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
• 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
• As the loader on a forward-starboard 32-pound gun, Pease was exposed to tremendous amounts of heat and smoke from cannon fire—and was a prime target for the enemy ship.
  — James Hagengruber, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
• 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 could make DeSantis a prime target for lower-polling hopefuls.
  — Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 7 May 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
• 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
• Mark Simon, but Muncie quickly becomes a prime suspect for police — and a prime target for the dead man’s enemies to be framed for his murder.
  — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 28 Nov. 2024
• The water, which could be extracted and used for drinking, breathing and for rocket fuel, makes the area a prime target for long-term exploration of the moon and beyond, NASA says.
  — George Petras, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 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
• Beijing must soon begin to import more of its industrial inputs, and Southeast Asia is a prime target to fulfill those needs.
  — Rebecca Liao, Foreign Affairs, 27 July 2015
• None other than Gary Lamont had been a prime target of the investigation.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
• It was known that lipids are sensitive to pressure, so cell membranes were a prime target for investigation.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, WIRED, 20 Oct. 2024
• That critical role makes Treasury a prime target for fraudsters seeking to steal from taxpayers.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024
• 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
• The latter is linked to a political action committee that helped make the 2022 election one of the nastiest and most heated in the town's recent history, while the former was a prime target of that PAC.
  — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
• The Nordic region has become a prime target for big energy users thanks to the abundance of clean energy, with hydropower dominating the power mix.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Europe, 3 June 2024
• However, sad to say, Gmail accounts remain a prime target for attackers of all sorts and understanding the threat is key to getting a grip on mitigating it.
  — Davey Winder, Forbes, 16 Dec. 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
• The agency is a prime target for steep funding and staff cuts under a Republican administration.
  — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 9 Sep. 2024
• Life in the capital has been terrifying at times: in the first weeks of the war, when the city was a prime target, and sporadically since then, when Russian missiles have penetrated Kyiv’s staunch air defenses.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2024
• Planetary scientists view Enceladus as a prime target in the search for extraterrestrial life because beneath its icy crust the moon houses a salty ocean—a good medium for the ingredients of life to mix.
  — Byron Cowen, science.org, 30 May 2023

Last Updated: 4 Mar 2025