How to Use triad in a Sentence

triad

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  • Much needs to be done to get the triad in shape to deal with the challenges ahead.
    — Michaela Dodge, National Review, 19 Jan. 2018
  • So, there’s a triad of the Cure, the Smiths, and Oasis on a single song.
    — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 25 May 2023
  • But this triad was abandoned long ago, to the detriment of all.
    — Steve Forbes, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • In fact Sirius, at the bottom of the triad, is the brightest star available in the night sky.
    — Mike Lynch / Sky Watch, Twin Cities, 5 Feb. 2017
  • Adoptees may be the most unheard members of this triad.
    — Laura Goetz, STAT, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The Heart Triad Nicknamed the feeling triad, types two, three, and four are in the heart triad.
    — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 11 June 2023
  • The culprit may be the glute medius, the middle portion of your glute muscle triad.
    — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 12 May 2023
  • But what great leader hires Chinese triads to beat up kids and women in the street?
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 16 Aug. 2019
  • All this is set against the backdrop of the Chinese triad in San Francisco.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Then, in 2018, a review of studies finally put the triad to rest.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2021
  • One, into the use of a guitar as a very orchestral thing with a triad of melody going on.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The whole apparatus hangs on a thin concrete spine, topped by a triad of steel pins that reach far beyond the roof.
    — Curbed, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Cooper dedicates most of his books to the hearth-warming triad of wife and daughters.
    — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
  • The starry triad of Future, Post, and Halsey pose a threat to any potential Hot 100 contenders.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Known as the Diamond and Pearl Leaf Brooch, the piece features a triad of pearls set into a leafed branch of pave diamonds.
    — Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The Diamond and Pearl Leaf Brooch, as the piece is known, features a triad of pearls set into a leafed branch of pave diamonds.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The work ends with a rising series of clashing chords, landing on a cheerful B-flat triad.
    — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Tupper Lake, a former logging town in the Adirondacks, hugs the eastern shore of a bright blue lake, nestled among a triad of 2,000-foot peaks.
    — Peter Andrey Smith, Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2019
  • Acoustical mirages beguiled the ears: in the trio of the Scherzo, brassy E-flat-major triads evoked a trio of hunting horns.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The nuclear triad covers the three ways that the United States can launch nuclear weapons.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 7 June 2018
  • For evidence, take a closer look at last night's triad of side-butt devotees.
    — Lauren Valenti, Marie Claire, 31 Aug. 2015
  • And Gareth Bale, the $100 million player who formed such a potent triad with Benzema and Ronaldo, is still on the club’s books—and mostly on the golf course.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The nation's nuclear triad, the ability to launch nuclear counterstrikes from the air, from the land and from the sea.
    — ABC News, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Oryx center punched with a triad of .300 Winchester Magnum loads loped into the sands of the Kalahari, never to be seen again.
    — Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 13 Jan. 2020
  • At their cores, both Dead and Thrones have been distilled into a triad of fascists vs. freedom fighters vs. the undead.
    — John Walters, Newsweek, 12 Oct. 2017
  • The symptoms made up two-thirds of a triad that Hoffman had often observed and treated in his 20 years in the E.R. but had never seen quite so clearly.
    — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Look beneath this triad to see Antares, the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius.
    — National Geographic, 29 Feb. 2016
  • Police said some of the men had triad backgrounds, and showed reporters wooden sticks allegedly used as weapons.
    — Austin Ramzy, New York Times, 22 July 2019
  • Others point to Russia’s and China’s push to modernize their arsenals as a reason to keep that third prong of the triad.
    — latimes.com, 30 May 2017
  • Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez, who were also nominated tonight, complete the triad.
    — EW.com, 17 June 2024

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