How to Use third force in a Sentence

third force

noun
  • The third force may be the most important.
    — Dasha Shunina, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • Behavioral design is the third force, and regulators haven’t caught up with it.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Yana Sinkevich, founder and CEO, The Hearty Paw The third force is category spillover.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Spain needs a third force because no other club in La Liga are remotely positioned to bother Madrid or Barcelona long term, and Saturday’s result should give Xabi Alonso pause for thought.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The resulting credit crunch in America pushed unemployment up to 20 percent and, with businesses failing all over the country, a new party, the Populist Party, which was determined to free the US dollar from the shackles of gold, began to mobilize as a third force in US politics.
    — David McWilliams, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2025

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