triptych

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Recent Examples of triptych On the white brick wall behind the bar hung what looked like a triptych of a swan on a pink settee. Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2025 The film is structured as a triptych: in 1908, Grete (Luna Wedler), the school’s first female student faces near constant misogyny, discovers the universal patterns of life hidden in plants through her black-and-white photography. Leila Latif, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025 Instead, what makes the triptych of thematically connected snapshots memorable is its deftly unfussy observation of the unknowability that can endure among people who share the same bloodlines. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2025 The movie is a triptych, following three separate stories set in different countries and revolving around relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parents and each other. Ellise Shafer, Variety, 31 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for triptych
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Noun
  • Edebiri, an Emmy Award winner for The Bear, and Cheadle, known for Hotel Rwanda, Steven Soderbergh’s Oceans trilogy and more, are also making their Broadway debuts in the production.
    Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The trilogy-capping LP will arrive four years after her last studio album, Still Over It, and six years after her Over It debut album.
    Heran Mamo, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The first Universal Frankenstein movie to be produced after James Whale’s masterful diptych loses Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein, jumping ahead to his adult son Wolf (Basil Rathbone) returning to his ancestral home, where the resentful villagers give him the cold shoulder.
    Rory Doherty, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The exhibition is physically structured around five diptychs, each on a podium, juxtaposing five sculptures and five video installations.
    Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Nuno’s emphasis on compactness without possession meant West Ham’s midfield often sat much closer to their defensive colleagues, leaving the attacking trio of Crysencio Summerville, Callum Wilson and Jarrod Bowen stranded higher up the pitch.
    Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Plus, the full scent trio of two candles and a diffuser will run you less than $75 with sale prices.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 10 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • These colorful, geometric paintings are similar to murals, but instead of adorning urban buildings, the blocks are more of a rural sighting, typically taking residence on barns and sheds.
    Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 7 Nov. 2025
  • My murals always seek to uplift and celebrate the communities where they’re placed.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • All three nuclear powers have established their own nuclear triad, consisting of ICBMs, submarines armed with ballistic missiles and nuclear-capable aircraft, which ensure their forces can survive a first strike and retaliate, thereby deterring a nuclear attack.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Even America’s first full-length film, an adaptation of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, featured the age-old romantic triad.
    John Ortved, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Astronomers have unveiled the largest low-frequency radio color image of the Milky Way ever created, offering a sprawling cosmic panorama that reveals supernova remnants, stellar nurseries, pulsars and the intricate glow of gas and dust weaving through our galaxy’s heart.
    Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The iconic meadow scene, during which Bella and Edward stare longingly at one another on the forest floor, reached new levels of enchantmemt thanks to a proper display of the scene's idyllic panorama.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The comments came after the triumvirate blasted through a fizzy set of pioneering hip-hop.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 9 Nov. 2025
  • That leaves exactly one spot for the underperforming triumvirate of the Warriors, the Clippers, and the Timberwolves.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2025

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“Triptych.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/triptych. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.

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