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Any pro sports fan with half a brain and a functioning soul will tell you that athletes can usually find a way to disappoint you off the court — triply so in the case of team owners and league commissioners.
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Tres Dean, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
And a Black painter’s intervention with canon and intervention into history is triply fraught.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
While, the steering system is triply redundant, Collette notes, each of the backups is dependent on electricity to run pumps that then pressurize the hydraulics and activate the ship's massive rudder.
—Jackie Northam, NPR, 27 Mar. 2024
In the absence of that, decisions become triply hard.
—Matt Symonds, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
At the Dallas Firefighters’ Museum, Dallas Fire-Rescue celebrated a triply unique sesquicentennial anniversary.
—Dallas News, 4 July 2022
The Fugitive Slave Act made the already dangerous flight to freedom in Harford County triply treacherous, according to David Armenti, education director for the Maryland Center for History and Culture, by requiring citizens in free states to assist the captors.
—Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 27 Feb. 2021
Megan Lawson, an economist who leads outdoor recreation, economic development, and demographics for Headwaters Economics, a nonprofit think tank that looks at economics and land use, says that recreation towns are triply sensitive to the impacts of the pandemic.
—Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 29 Aug. 2020
Russia's intervention in the Syrian regional Sectarian War is not just ominous, but probably doubly or triply ominous.
—Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2015
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Tres Dean, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
And a Black painter’s intervention with canon and intervention into history is triply fraught.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
While, the steering system is triply redundant, Collette notes, each of the backups is dependent on electricity to run pumps that then pressurize the hydraulics and activate the ship's massive rudder.
—Jackie Northam, NPR, 27 Mar. 2024
In the absence of that, decisions become triply hard.
—Matt Symonds, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
At the Dallas Firefighters’ Museum, Dallas Fire-Rescue celebrated a triply unique sesquicentennial anniversary.
—Dallas News, 4 July 2022
The Fugitive Slave Act made the already dangerous flight to freedom in Harford County triply treacherous, according to David Armenti, education director for the Maryland Center for History and Culture, by requiring citizens in free states to assist the captors.
—Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 27 Feb. 2021
Megan Lawson, an economist who leads outdoor recreation, economic development, and demographics for Headwaters Economics, a nonprofit think tank that looks at economics and land use, says that recreation towns are triply sensitive to the impacts of the pandemic.
—Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 29 Aug. 2020
Russia's intervention in the Syrian regional Sectarian War is not just ominous, but probably doubly or triply ominous.
—Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2015
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“Triply.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/triply. Accessed 16 Mar. 2026.
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triply
adverb
tri·ply
ˈtrip-(ə-)lē 
: in a triple degree, amount, or manner
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