triple crown

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Recent Examples of triple crown In fact, his fade gave off the air of a mental rather than a physical difficulty, reminiscent of last year, when his trainer Pletcher’s pulling him from the 2024 Triple Crown series after his 15th place showing in the Kentucky Derby. Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2025 Pegram is known for his association with Baffert and their near miss in the 1998 Triple Crown with Real Quiet. Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2025 Spencer Ng, owner of Triple Crown, set up outside of his restaurant, which Ng said has been established for nearly 30 years. Cam'ron Hardy, Chicago Tribune, 27 July 2025 The defending champs paddled to victory at the first race of the 2025 Triple Crown season, New York's General Clinton Canoe Regatta, in May. Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 25 July 2025 The $1 million Grade 1 NYRA Bets Haskell Stakes takes center stage Saturday at Monmouth Park, and all eyes are on Journalism, the Preakness winner and the only horse in the field to have contested all three legs of the Triple Crown. Jared Welch, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025 That means Judge could be on his way to a Triple Crown — and not just for the AL, but for the entire MLB. Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 17 July 2025 Membership also included access to other local clubs, such as the Triple Crown Country Club, and private clubs throughout the country and world, its website states. Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 15 July 2025 The Triple Crown schedule offers six games for 1,100 teams in the world’s largest fast pitch tournament. Troy Renck, Denver Post, 4 July 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for triple crown
Noun
  • Punk rock guitar is well represented by The Queers, while ska-punk — where guitars battle trumpets and trombones — doesn’t get any bigger than a triple of Sublime, Bouncing Souls and The Interrupters.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2025
  • In the sixth inning, CJ Abrams hit a one-out triple and later scored after Bobby Witt Jr. dropped a pop-up in shallow center.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Hell of a Holiday, but that doesn’t mean the trio of Ashley Monroe, Angaleena Presley, and Miranda Lambert are finished making music.
    Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2025
  • That veteran trio helped comprise one of the best staffs in baseball this season.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • But eighteen years later, in a world transformed by climate change, her triplet daughters discover her apocalypse guide… and clues that their mother might still be alive.
    Natalie Zutter August 1, Literary Hub, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Baryons are all built from triplets of even smaller particles called quarks.
    Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • Peace through strength, of America’s nuclear triad intersecting land, air, sea with connectivity into space and cyberspace, is a military capability that Iran does not have and will never achieve.
    Brooke Taylor, Boston Herald, 24 July 2025
  • Quantum technology, in particular, forms one part of a new strategic triad, alongside AI and cyber resilience, that will determine global influence for decades.
    Markus Pflitsch, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • And then things get downright spicy — Mia suggests a threesome.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2025
  • So the pace slows down, allowing viewers to take in an extended gag involving Neeson and Anderson being watched by a thug via heat-seeking binoculars during a date, and a falling-in-love montage that turns into a stand-alone segment involving magical snow men, threesomes, and slasher horror.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • Cassandra Jennings’ role in the school’s interim leadership triumvirate will either be limited or eliminated, depending on the version of the MOU the SCUSD board approves.
    Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 24 June 2025
  • Not surprisingly, its 2025 proxy statement reveals the toxic governance triumvirate – incentives, incompetence and indifference – that lures troublesome attention from both hackers and activists.
    Noah Barsky, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • Still, the film still has a ways to go to beat Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard’s sequel trilogy, each of which grossed $1 billion globally.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • While the stories were nothing to write home about, fans really appreciated how they were woven into the events of the original trilogy, expanding on iconic battles and off-camera events while also showing us the unseen side of the Galactic Civil War.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2025

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