dyad

Example Sentences

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But what about the peculiarly fraught, hard-to-classify dynamic of the boy and girl dyad, two siblings of different genders raised under like conditions but so often saddled with wildly divergent expectations?

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2023

Li tells me the characters came to her together, “yin and yang,” only whole as a dyad.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2022

The failure of the psychotherapeutic process is located at its epicenter: the power disparity in the therapeutic dyad.

From Scientific American • Jul. 12, 2020

Despite this, Salon's Matthew Rozsa found the coda "extremely satisfying," even as fans decried the sidelining of Rose Tico or tried to puzzle out the ins and outs of the Force dyad.

From Salon • May 1, 2020

Meanwhile, Jaime and Nicolas were growing up apart from the feminine dyad, adhering to the then common belief that “we have to become men.”

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende