Thesaurus results for TRILOGIES

trilogies

noun

plural of trilogy

as in trios

a series of three novels, movies, etc., that are closely related and involve the same characters or themes the last book in the trilogy a science-fiction trilogy

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Recent Examples of trilogies The computer animation company is responsible for various digital effects, including the motion capture technology used in the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies along with the Planet of the Apes movies. —

Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE, 18 Jan. 2026 Music by John Williams from all three trilogies will be heard throughout Galaxy’s Edge. —

Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 15 Jan. 2026 Like all Star Wars trilogies, the prequel series gets dark in its second installment. —

Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Nov. 2025 But let’s be honest, third installments of trilogies rarely feel as vital as the first two. —

Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 25 Nov. 2025 People still read Jane Austen and Agatha Christie, and movies still come in trilogies, echoing the triple-decker novel, which evolved in the nineteenth century partly so that subscription libraries could more easily lend out long books. —

Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025

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Noun

What follows is pure dance, a joyously propulsive, non-stop sequence of duets, trios, ensemble dances.

— Jennifer Homans, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
Eclipses come in pairs and sometimes trios, referred to as seasons, with a solar eclipse always accompanied by a lunar eclipse roughly two weeks before or after, according to Young.

— Lily Hautau, CNN Money, 2 Mar. 2026