How to Use primordial soup in a Sentence

primordial soup

noun

• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Popular hypotheses credit a primordial soup, a bolt of lightning and a colossal stroke of luck.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Jan. 2014
• 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, 12 Nov. 2020
• Their technique was akin to Miller’s simulated primordial soup.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2016
• There are some key factors here that scientists now believe are critical to a successful primordial soup.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 13 Dec. 2022
• Since Elon Musk popularized the idea in the primordial soup of 2013, at least four companies have seized the maglev tube mantle, determined to deliver an actual whoosh.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 20 Apr. 2018
• 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
• New York City in the late 1970s was a cauldron overflowing with a primordial soup of creativity: Disco, punk, new wave, hip-hop, pop art, fashion icons, street art, all emanated from a few square miles packed with ambition.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• 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
• 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 findings, by a team of biologists and physicists in Dresden, Germany, have revived a hypothesis, first suggested in 1924, that liquid droplets in early Earth’s primordial soup were the primitive precursors of the first cells.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 Jan. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The chemistry of the primordial soup, random mutations, geography, catastrophic events and countless other factors have contributed to the fine details of Earth’s diverse flora and fauna.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Jan. 2014
• 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
• Scientists worried that humans could take advantage of benevolent AI and suggested that an autonomous robot could re-create Earth’s primordial soup.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 22 Sep 2024