triple crown

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Recent Examples of triple crown Martínez was a three-time Cy Young Award winner, an eight-time All-Star, a five-time ERA champion and a Triple Crown winner. Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025 Hall of Fame jockey Ron Turcotte, who rode Secretariat to the Triple Crown in 1973, has died. Preston Fore, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2025 Sovereignty, the Triple Crown Class of 2025’s Derby and Belmont victor and Saratoga-man-of-the-minute, bestrides the ultra-short Travers Stakes field of five as an undisputed equine colossus. Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2025 Shane Bieber, the 2020 Cy Young and Triple Crown winner, returned to the mound for the first time in 507 days after Tommy John surgery. Noah Gulley, Miami Herald, 23 Aug. 2025 Turcotte famously swept the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes with Secretariat in 1973 to win the first Triple Crown in 25 years. Sarah Jean Maher, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2025 Turcotte won the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes twice each, most notably sweeping the three with Secretariat to end horse racing’s Triple Crown drought that dated to Citation in 1948. Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 22 Aug. 2025 Why the state is betting big on the film industry 'Disney's Secretariat' (2010) The story of Triple Crown winner Secretariat stars Diane Lane as Penny Chenery and John Malkovich as Lucien Laurin. Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 19 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for triple crown
Noun
  • San Antonio wing Devin Vassell’s seven made triples matched Detroit’s total.
    Hunter Patterson, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The Red Sox finally broke the ice on a two-out RBI triple by Mickey Gasper, but the Rays rallied in the bottom of the ninth with a single, a double and a walk-off two-run single by Jonny DeLuca.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 23 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The trio will face off in a 2026 midterm primary this upcoming Tuesday, and the top two are most likely headed for a runoff later this year.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Burbank police had been tracking the getaway car with a GPS device and pulled the trio over shortly after.
    Cierra Morgan, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Singh leaves behind a wife and triplets under the age of one, the sheriff's office says.
    Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The team, led by Professor Jacob Linder at NTNU’s Department of Physics and the QuSpin research center, reports evidence that the alloy NbRe behaves like a triplet superconductor.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • In his speech, Putin referred to the Russian nuclear triad, which is the country’s three-pronged system for delivering nuclear weapons, designed to ensure a credible second-strike capability.
    Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The methodology involves a patented Metabolic Code, which analyzes more than 70 key biomarkers across five health triads.
    Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 20 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Observing an actual Parisian rejecting butter—one of France’s holy trinity of dairy products, along with cheese and crème fraîche—was a window into the new wellness culture seeping into what might have been the world’s last bastion of free-flowing wine and glutinous bread.
    Hannah Seligson, Vanity Fair, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Louisiana dirty rice is a tasty meat-and-rice dish that roots its flavor in aromatic Cajun seasoning and the holy trinity vegetables.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 12 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • In the trailer, Kent suggests a threesome between her, Schwartz, and Michelle Saniei.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Then, the threesome went back to Europe, Germany, this time adding a third language to the children's repertoire.
    Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • What a triumvirate of irritation.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • There can’t be too many quotes attributed to such an incongruous triumvirate, but then there are few instruments as polarizing as the squeeze-box.
    Jonathan Margolis, Air Mail, 24 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The film is the third in Saleh’s trilogy interrogating the machinery of political control—following Sundance pic The Nile Hilton Incident and Cairo Conspiracy.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 23 Feb. 2026
  • But while speaking with Matthew McConaughey at Variety and CNN’s town hall event at the University of Texas at Austin, Chalamet revealed some new details that have inspired his portrayal of Paul Atreides in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi trilogy.
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 21 Feb. 2026

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