triplets

plural of triplet
as in trios
a group of three the theater piece is actually a triplet of comedy sketches, all of them having romantic love as their theme

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Recent Examples of triplets The solo ghost features seven LED lights while the triplets include 30. Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Sep. 2025 Powell and Ellie are part of triplets with their brother Henry, and Lily arrived 17 months later. Bryan West, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025 To put that into perspective, Pluym says there's about a 1 in 10,000 chance of having triplets in general, which is already pretty rare. David Chiu, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025 Blake and Logan Miller are triplets. John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025 The week before, the paper featured a set of East Garfield Park triplets headed to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on full-ride scholarships in the fall. Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025 Identical triplets are even better. Air Mail, 23 Aug. 2025 The triplets, who just turned one, are naturally very playful with one another. Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025 Five years after their adoption, the boys, then 13, 11 and 8-year-old triplets, were removed from the Edmonsons’ home by court order in February. Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 27 Dec. 2024
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Noun
  • Only Murders in the Building features one of Hollywood’s favorite trios — Selena Gomez, Martin Short and Steve Martin — who bond over their fascination with murder investigations.
    Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The three were among the best trios in the college game, and all ended up being lottery picks after one season in Durham.
    Ricardo Klein, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Anyone who doesn’t fit into this machine – triads, activists, labor unions – tend to just disappear, Tan explains.
    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

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“Triplets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/triplets. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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