the Trinity

noun

Christianity
: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit existing as one God

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Its reactors rose from the desert with unprecedented urgency, producing the plutonium that fueled both the Trinity test and the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. New Atlas, 14 Dec. 2025 The Parkers were one of the first families to occupy the bottomland near the north bank of the Trinity River before the Johnson family founded Mosier Valley, according to Pointer. Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Dec. 2025 Servetus had rejected the standard Christian belief in the Trinity, which holds that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three persons in one God. Michael Bruening, The Conversation, 3 Dec. 2025 The Eagles could be the team to beat in the Trinity League. Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 2 Dec. 2025 None of it mattered to the Trinity High School football team, which dominated from start to finish and might need a midnight kickoff on Mars to be denied a third straight state championship. Rich Barak, Louisville Courier Journal, 29 Nov. 2025 Lake Ray Hubbard spans 22,000 acres and is located east of Dallas in Collin, Dallas, Rockwall and Kaufman counties, on the East Fork of the Trinity River. Julia Falcon, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2025 My parents didn’t realize it at the time, but I was born the same week the first-ever atomic bomb was tested at the Trinity site. Ahmed Naji, The Dial, 18 Nov. 2025 Walking down Broadway, your friend sees that the grounds for the Trinity Church are open and suggests cutting across to slice a minute off the walk, and thus take in another sight in Lower Manhattan. Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025

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