as in trios
a group of three
a triad of candlesticks on the mantel
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Recent Examples of triads
Anyone who doesn’t fit into this machine – triads, activists, labor unions – tend to just disappear, Tan explains.
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Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2025
The real Martinů giveaway is an underlying buzz of activity in the piano and the harp—D-minor triads mixed with C-sharp-minor, B-flat-major, and E-flat-major ones, suggesting a rickety machinery behind the lyrical action.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Total lunar eclipses — which always occur during a full moon — often arrive in triads, accompanied by at least one solar eclipse two weeks before and/or after.
—Jamie Carter, Space.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Eckhardt’s commentaries on God and scripture are dense and recursive, breaking ideas into component parts, placing them onto higher and lower planes, making hierarchies and triads out of them until eventually becoming something like an investigation into being and nothingness themselves.
—Jon Raymond
august 5, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2025
The real Martinů giveaway is an underlying buzz of activity in the piano and the harp—D-minor triads mixed with C-sharp-minor, B-flat-major, and E-flat-major ones, suggesting a rickety machinery behind the lyrical action.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Total lunar eclipses — which always occur during a full moon — often arrive in triads, accompanied by at least one solar eclipse two weeks before and/or after.
—Jamie Carter, Space.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Eckhardt’s commentaries on God and scripture are dense and recursive, breaking ideas into component parts, placing them onto higher and lower planes, making hierarchies and triads out of them until eventually becoming something like an investigation into being and nothingness themselves.
—Jon Raymond
august 5, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for triads
trios
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If Ward is able to regain his All-Pro form, that would give Indianapolis one of the fiercest cornerback trios in the league with Ward and Gardner on the outside, along with 2021 Pro Bowler Kenny Moore II starting in the slot.—
James Boyd,
New York Times,
5 Nov. 2025
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Missions on China’s Shenzhou-21 spacecraft involve trios of astronauts on six-month stays in space, with veteran astronauts increasingly replaced by younger faces.—
Reuters,
CNN Money,
1 Nov. 2025
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“Triads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/triads. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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