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triptych

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Recent Examples of triptych In a small room devoted to his work, the artist presents a triptych of South Park playsets centered around the theme of Tax Day, a motif reflecting the exhibition’s April 15 opening date. — Theo Belci, Artforum, 2 June 2026 Told with exacting restraint yet as layered as the lacquer on an ebony Biedermeier console, this forms a loose triptych with Pawlikowski’s last two features, Ida and Cold War, both of which were set at least partly behind the Iron Curtain. — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026 Along with Gioachino Rossini and Gaetano Donizetti, Bellini is part of a Mount Rushmore–like triptych of nineteenth-century Italian composers invoked whenever beautiful singing—bel canto—becomes an object of faith. — Arya Roshanian, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2026 Wynn, who died last spring and for whom a wing of Zumthor’s aerodynamic structure is named, donated a Francis Bacon triptych depicting Bacon’s friend and fellow-painter Lucian Freud, the only Bacons on display in a public Los Angeles museum. — Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 4 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for triptych

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Like the first book of the trilogy, this one unfolds entirely in dialogue—only instead of giving us a narrator whose hat was stolen, this story is narrated by the fish who did the stealing.

— Casey Cep, New Yorker, 7 July 2026
Its matte black, carbon fiber-like appearance drew comparisons to Batman’s cowl in Nolan’s Dark Knight film trilogy.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 July 2026

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Today’s great photo is from Times photographer Gina Ferazzi outside a mural in downtown Los Angeles.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
In May, Hiram Johnson High School in Sacramento City Unified School District announced plans to remove a mural of an Indigenous man associated with its Warriors nickname — a decision urged by some members of the tribal community.

— Alula Alderson, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026

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Ernaux, the surprise French Nobel winner, packs this absorbing panorama with domestic, academic, and pop-cultural details.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 8 July 2026
Those windows wrap around the entire box, teaming with the cab windshield to bring the outdoors inside via a full 360-degree panorama.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 July 2026

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McKennie, along with Malik Tillman and Tyler Adams, formed a lethal triumvirate that dominated the midfield against Paraguay.

— Michael Lewis, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
In 2012, the Wilf family arrived at a fork in the road with its triumvirate of experts, who shared an equal amount of influence.

— Alec Lewis, New York Times, 3 June 2026

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