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variants or tricolored

tricolor

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noun

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Recent Examples of tricolor
Adjective
Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party boasts a tricolor flame in its logo evoking a now-defunct movement made up of the political remnants of Benito Mussolini’s fascists. Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 28 June 2024 Pippa is tricolor, with long ears, a distant gaze, and an underbite that, Peacock mentioned, Piper didn’t have. Alexandra Horowitz, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
Noun
The flag’s national tricolor includes blue (symbolizing peoples’ Turkic origins), Green (Islam) and red (independence/democracy). Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025 The tricolor has horizontal stripes of green, white, and black, with three red stars down the center stripe, which in the 1930s represented the three main states of Aleppo, Damascus, and Deir Ezzor. Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tricolor
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tricolor
Noun
  • Louisville leaders announce white flag conditions Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said in a post to X, formerly Twitter, that white flag operations will be executed in the coming days due to cold temperatures and snowfall.
    Keisha Rowe, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
  • That doesn’t mean Disney and Pixar are waving the white flag of surrender and banishing original storytelling to the hinterlands.
    Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • But their gray world is rich in attributes that might otherwise pale in our trichromatic, million-color world.
    Kanya Kanchana, Longreads, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Helmholtz’s theory was that our vision was trichromatic, based on three fundamental colors: red, green, and blue, which can be combined to make any other color.
    The Lost Women of Science Initiative, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2023
Adjective
  • In Caroline Absher’s colossal, mostly-dichromatic self-portrait Studio, the artist looks down at the viewer, who crouches or sits beneath her.
    Dallas News, Dallas News, 6 May 2022
  • Álvaro's subjects were 32 trichromats (a mix of men and women) and 32 dichromatic men (a mix of the green-lacking and red-lacking subtypes).
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2015
Adjective
  • Its bicolored glasses were made from Sapphire and Mozambique baguette Ruby while its own earring was fashioned from a yellow diamond.
    Stephanie Hirschmiller, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Its bicolored yellowy-orange and pink blooms have a moderate to strong fragrance.
    Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
Noun
  • Other rules include prohibiting mound visits, as well as stepping out of the batter's box between pitches and bunting.
    Kaycee Sloan, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
  • During the cornerstone-laying ceremony on May 8, 1906, the skeletal structure of the building was decked with bunting and flags.
    Powered By, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • In line with the Princess of Wales' attire, the Duchess of Edinburgh also donned a blue and red cape over her gown, a nod to the colors of the union jack.
    Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 7 May 2023
  • One dessert that stands out from all the cupcakes, cookies and biscuits decorated with crowns and union jacks is the Jack Russel cake, which brings to mind the king and queen consort's two Jack Russell terriers.
    Karina Zaiets, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2023
Adjective
  • There, with help from her mom, the UC San Diego student applied the finishing touches to her tribal regalia and hair — the latter braided, banded and decorated with real otter skins — in anticipation of the day’s events.
    Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2025
  • That $1 raise triggers a $1,000 annual payment spike, highlighting how fragile the GOP’s banded structure can be for borrowers near a threshold.
    Shahar Ziv, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • Amid the violence, rioters burned an American flag.
    Alexandra Koch , Bill Melugin, FOXNews.com, 8 July 2025
  • Later in the evening, Austin police ordered marchers to remain on the sidewalk or face arrest; dozens of protesters defied officers and sat down in the middle of the roadway in front of them, one holding a billowing American flag as traffic lights flashed from red to green.
    Alex Driggars, Austin American Statesman, 8 July 2025

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“Tricolor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tricolor. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.

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