How to Use triple-A in a Sentence

triple-A

noun

• Moody’s was the last of the three major credit rating agencies to downgrade the U.S. from a triple-A rating.
  — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 19 May 2025
• The Dodgers manager said the team will move forward with a bullpen game Tuesday rather than call up a pitcher from triple-A for a spot start.
  — Benjamin Royer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2025
• The last high-stakes debt ceiling fight, in 2011, caused the nation to lose its gold-standard triple-A credit rating from Standard & Poor’s.
  — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 8 May 2023
• As exciting a prospect as that might be, Monster Hunter Wilds is a dense game, filled with more systems and choices than most triple-A games of its kind.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
• Sweeney was promoted from triple-A on Aug. 16 to fill in for the hugely disappointing and overpaid Javier Báez, who is out for the season with a hip injury.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
• Iannetta was demoted to triple-A Colorado Springs for three weeks in August.
  — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
• If the United States were to withdraw, the bank would lose its triple-A credit rating, two credit-rating companies warned in recent weeks.
  — Max Bearak, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
• Ubisoft shares have slumped to decade-lows against this backdrop of dismal investor expectations about its triple-A games pipeline and financial prospects.
  — Ryan Browne, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2024
• Kershaw is expected to make one last rehab outing with triple-A Oklahoma on Sunday, Roberts said.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2025
• Roberts was unsure when Miller, who missed two months earlier this year with a shoulder injury before being demoted to triple-A before the All-Star break, would pitch again.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2024
• Virtual reality as a whole has long been missing triple-A titles.
  — Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2023
• Shortstop Alex Freeland also finished the year in triple-A, having impressed team evaluators and rival scouts.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
• Future Games Show will return this March, bringing new announcements and reveals from triple-A and indie game developers.
  — Rahul Majumdar, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
• But Retro Game Corps, in particular, shows that battery life is only slightly better with weaker games and can be comparable or worse with triple-A titles.
  — Sean Hollister, The Verge, 18 Sep. 2023
• So, when the Dodgers sent Stone back to triple-A, their pitching department recommended a significant arsenal change.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
• Some grumbled that opponents out of the pennant race would field the equivalent of triple-A lineups, while others moaned that a dugout of nearly 40 players gave a manager an unfair advantage.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• This has become a major problem for many game developers, leading to many triple-A games either getting released on Xbox late or outright skipping the platform.
  — Rahul Majumdar, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
• Free trials for new triple-A games are sure to be popular, and especially so with Steam Deck owners who will appreciate being able to test how well a game runs on the handheld before deciding to buy it.
  — Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 17 May 2023
• Fitch has already placed America’s triple-A credit rating, its highest score, on watch for a possible downgrade because of the political brinkmanship.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 26 May 2023
• And while the state can again boast a triple-A rating from three firms, the split from Moody’s is attention-grabbing.
  — Bryan P. Sears, Baltimore Sun, 28 May 2026