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It is a term used to refer to a document or other material that reproduces a primary source. For example, "I used a secondary source to support my argument which was based on the memoirs of a former president."
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Secondary source
noun
A written commentary which discusses previously produced original work of another author, especially a notable author.
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"What's a secondary source?" The professor blanched.
Thermal plants are a significant secondary source of power.
If you want to know about 1908, don't go to some secondary source - read the newspapers.
"Parliament is only a secondary source of power," warns the economist Saeed Leylaz.
The Internet is growing as a secondary source for election news, a survey made public yesterday says.
How often do you check with a secondary source to try to validate whether or not a rumor is true?
They fed Cairo's organic waste to the animals, whose meat provided a good secondary source of income.
The secondary source of supply, B, would in time also become depleted.
The crankcase is a secondary source of unburned hydrocarbons and, to a lesser extent, carbon monoxide.
This extrapolated estimate, however, does not stand alone, but is combined with previous secondary source estimates that have been reviewed by country and regional experts.
And also diversify your secondary source of repayment.
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