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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Manager Thomas Tuchel has his side firing on all cylinders, with Harry Kane, Jamal Musiala, and Leroy Sané forming one of the most dangerous attacking trios in Europe.—
Kilty Cleary,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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Page will be on commentary during the AEW world trios match.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Triads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/triads. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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