as in trio
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 triplet But in a serendipitous way, a two-decade old photo of the triplets playing baseball helped, too. Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 30 Jan. 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 If two bits in any triplet simultaneously suffer errors, the majority vote will return the wrong answer. Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024 The missing sisters, from Hungary, are part of a set of triplets, with the other triplet being their sister Edit Huszti, according to the BBC. Raven Brunner, People.com, 22 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for triplet

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“Triplet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/triplet. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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