How to Use triangulation in a Sentence

triangulation

noun

• This means their distances can be worked out by triangulation.
  — The Economist, 17 May 2018
• So this triangulation is just not going to work.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2026
• And — to add one more plank of triangulation — does Paul love Art?
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 26 Apr. 2024
• One of the first rules I was taught as an architect was about structure and triangulation.
  — Gabriella Gershenson, Saveur, 30 Jan. 2017
• How much does triangulation help us in the face of uncertainty?
  — Quanta Magazine, 4 Jan. 2018
• This kind of triangulation is exhausting and can lead to resentment on all sides.
  — Lori Gottlieb, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2024
• However, this lesbian triangulation does not sit well with me.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2021
• This was enough to resolve the triangulation question.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 Oct. 2025
• The course will also include how to take bearings and practice triangulation.
  — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2025
• Through triangulation, this trove of seismic data was used to pinpoint the precise locations of the fault lines.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Mar. 2021
• Cell phone records showed triangulation placing Samuel's phone in the woods behind the apartment complex.
  — Christopher Harris, CBS News, 3 June 2026
• This new proof goes further, by adding a second layer of randomness atop the random triangulation.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 July 2019
• Sparse cell coverage would have hampered efforts to locate it by triangulation.
  — Kay Armin Serjoie, TIME, 28 May 2024
• McConnell's triangulation here is more clever than either set of critics admits.
  — W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 8 Oct. 2021
• This year Mr Corbyn and his team have become more skilled in triangulation, as well as the more brutal side of politics.
  — The Economist, 23 Sep. 2017
• Three bullet holes in the chest, which father attributed to destiny, and I to the triangulation of past, present, and future.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 29 May 2018
• In this way, a series of triangulation points could be mapped, and the van could proceed to the satellite by a zigzag path, stopping every twenty miles to correct any error.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 26 June 2019
• But all this huffing and puffing is happening alongside some careful triangulation on the part of Fox’s hosts themselves.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 7 Nov. 2020
• As a result, the triangulation conjecture remained wide open.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 Oct. 2025
• Sir Keir’s approach to winning the nomination has been a study in careful triangulation.
  — The Economist, 29 Feb. 2020
• Seen at the time as a dark commentary on Clintonian triangulation.
  — The New Republic, 22 June 2023
• Left-wing critics of tactical triangulation have maintained that this can be seen only as collaboration with evil.
  — Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
• For one thing, these were difficult to measure, although a method of doing so through arduous triangulation had been known since antiquity.
  — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
• The ancient trigonometric method of triangulation to measure a mountain's height (where the angles in a triangle formed by three survey control points) will not be used.
  — Sugam Pokharel, CNN, 21 June 2017
• For much of the past year, Americans have guided their behavior using a kind of cognitive triangulation.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021
• The phrasing is purposeful, a bit of triangulation meant to soothe an audience averse to the specter of new public spending, and so, political by its very nature.
  — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 7 July 2017
• Without some means of triangulation, Small cautioned—testimony, archival records, aerial imagery—all kinds of anomalies could look like graves.
  — Rowan Moore Gerety, WIRED, 13 July 2023
• His conservative positions are part of the political triangulation some Democrats say is necessary to win seats in red states.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 19 May 2017
• Crews used cell phone triangulation as well as information relayed by the emergency dispatchers who stayed on the phone with the caller, the fire department’s report said.
  — Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 13 June 2026
• This is how our theory of causal dynamical triangulations (CDT) was born.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 May 2023