How to Use triad in a Sentence
triad
noun-
Much needs to be done to get the triad in shape to deal with the challenges ahead.
— Michaela Dodge, National Review, 19 Jan. 2018 -
So, there’s a triad of the Cure, the Smiths, and Oasis on a single song.
— Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 25 May 2023 -
Should one leg of the triad fail, one of the other two will prevail.
— Matthew Gault, WIRED, 22 July 2024 -
But this triad was abandoned long ago, to the detriment of all.
— Steve Forbes, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023 -
In fact Sirius, at the bottom of the triad, is the brightest star available in the night sky.
— Mike Lynch / Sky Watch, Twin Cities, 5 Feb. 2017 -
The chorus would start with a five chord — a brighter triad that still needs to resolve.
— Tom Roland, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2024 -
Still, from middle school on, Diana and I were part of a triad.
— Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2024 -
Adoptees may be the most unheard members of this triad.
— Laura Goetz, STAT, 3 Mar. 2023 -
In the book the film is based on, the protagonist is a triad member who’s from Hong Kong.
— Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 -
The Heart Triad Nicknamed the feeling triad, types two, three, and four are in the heart triad.
— Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 11 June 2023 -
The culprit may be the glute medius, the middle portion of your glute muscle triad.
— Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 12 May 2023 -
But what great leader hires Chinese triads to beat up kids and women in the street?
— Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 16 Aug. 2019 -
All this is set against the backdrop of the Chinese triad in San Francisco.
— Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Aug. 2019 -
Then, in 2018, a review of studies finally put the triad to rest.
— Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2021 -
In a triad, two people are always closer and risk icing out the third.
— Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2024 -
One, into the use of a guitar as a very orchestral thing with a triad of melody going on.
— Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2021 -
The triad of homes poised at the edge of the sea are deeply reminiscent of Buffett’s Key West songwriting roots.
— Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 16 July 2024 -
The whole apparatus hangs on a thin concrete spine, topped by a triad of steel pins that reach far beyond the roof.
— Curbed, 10 Nov. 2022 -
Cooper dedicates most of his books to the hearth-warming triad of wife and daughters.
— Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019 -
The starry triad of Future, Post, and Halsey pose a threat to any potential Hot 100 contenders.
— Billboard Staff, Billboard, 17 Sep. 2019 -
Known as the Diamond and Pearl Leaf Brooch, the piece features a triad of pearls set into a leafed branch of pave diamonds.
— Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 14 Sep. 2022 -
The Diamond and Pearl Leaf Brooch, as the piece is known, features a triad of pearls set into a leafed branch of pave diamonds.
— Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 14 Sep. 2022 -
The symptoms develop as a triad, affecting the skin, eyes, and joints.
— Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 13 Sep. 2024 -
The work ends with a rising series of clashing chords, landing on a cheerful B-flat triad.
— Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2023 -
Tupper Lake, a former logging town in the Adirondacks, hugs the eastern shore of a bright blue lake, nestled among a triad of 2,000-foot peaks.
— Peter Andrey Smith, Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2019 -
Acoustical mirages beguiled the ears: in the trio of the Scherzo, brassy E-flat-major triads evoked a trio of hunting horns.
— Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024 -
The nuclear triad covers the three ways that the United States can launch nuclear weapons.
— Chris Cillizza, CNN, 7 June 2018 -
For evidence, take a closer look at last night's triad of side-butt devotees.
— Lauren Valenti, Marie Claire, 31 Aug. 2015 -
Why did clinicians wrongly trust this triad of symptoms for so long?
— Jeff Kukucka, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2024 -
There is magic in the triad, an equilibrium of chemistry between three people in a system that allows each point to withstand equal responsibility even if the weight is always shifting.
— Emily Olsen, The Athletic, 29 July 2024
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