How to Use dyad in a Sentence

dyad

noun
  • The second section, about Elio and Michel, reprises the May-December dyad.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2019
  • The professor and the politician are a dyad of perpetual myth.
    Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2020
  • The dyad-ic duo also uses the Force to stop ships from taking off and pass objects through their Force Facetime sessions.
    Joey Morona, cleveland, 20 Dec. 2019
  • In the later songs, the dyad is more abstractly the speaker and himself, and the lyrics take on a more rhetorical resonance.
    Brandon Taylor, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Could the Biden administration allow a leg of the triad to age out, resulting in a dyad?
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 Oct. 2021
  • According to Pickens, a month into the six-month trial, six dyads — which refers to a senior and their caregiver — were enrolled in the pilot study.
    Melanie Feuk, Houston Chronicle, 6 June 2019
  • Parenthood is, to me, a dyad that creates the most complex and fascinating spectrum of emotion in a person’s life.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 15 Oct. 2022
  • There is a thesis to be written about New York theater of that moment in that dyad of shows, linked by a single actor: Nixon, unwilling to hide the gears turning in her brain with the limbs of her body.
    New York Times, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Human milk feedings have been shown to improve health outcomes across the life course for birthing people and their infants, increase bonding between the dyad, and reduce health care costs.
    Jamila K. Taylor, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Yet individualism, the other side of that dyad, will not leave Thompson at peace either.
    Kenneth W. MacK, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
  • If Blackness is necessary as the inferior pole to an eternal, immutable dyad, nothing can ever change.
    Hari Kunzru, The New York Review of Books, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Caregivers and infants are really a dyad—their outcomes and health play into each other’s, Clayton Shuman, a maternal-infant-health researcher at the University of Michigan, told me.
    Katharine Gammon, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The pain of this moment lies in straining to articulate a defense for the safety of one’s community because conversations around anti-Asian sentiment fall through the cracks in the dyad between black and white in the American racial consciousness.
    Jerrine Tan, Wired, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The failure of the psychotherapeutic process is located at its epicenter: the power disparity in the therapeutic dyad.
    Erica Rex, Scientific American, 12 July 2020
  • The dyad of Disney (with its sanitized and sanctimonious simplicities) and Abrams (with his scrawnily derivative sensibility, an echo of an echo) has become a Death Star.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Researchers measured hair cortisol levels (an indicator of chronic stress) in dog-human dyads and found a strong degree of interspecies synchronization.
    Daphne Miller, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2019
  • Genetic testing means that clinicians will have to practice genetic counseling at visits that may need to expand from the dyad of patient and caregiver to include an extended and worried family.
    Jason Karlawish, STAT, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Remember to consider desire as a broad spectrum, one that includes willingness, not just want, says Guralnik, and create conditions that emphasize a dyad, not just a family matrix.
    Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The researchers also collected information on pairs of people known to interact with each other—dyads—as well as employee attributes, including gender, role, and desk location.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 13 July 2018
  • The implosion of another important health care dyad — clinicians and C-suite administrators — has received much less attention, despite the fact that those relationships are on life support.
    Christine Bechtel, STAT, 28 July 2022
  • Marrying him was the adventure within the New York adventure, the intimate intellectual dyad within the larger intellectual circle.
    Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021
  • In international relation dyads, this is a death knell for trust, and soon other nations will be wary of providing information to those hardworking individuals in the intelligence community.
    Mark Hertling, CNN, 16 May 2017

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