tertiary
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Investors instead have been gravitating to what Morgan Stanley analyst Joe Moore described as “secondary and tertiary AI beneficiaries” that are also benefiting from the booming investment cycle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
"The drug creates an immune microenvironment within the tumor, and essentially replaces the tumor with these tertiary lymphoid structures."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 16, 2026
That has secondary and tertiary effects, because spending on digital infrastructure boosts demand for power turbines and cooling equipment, as well.
From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025
She has an entire tertiary life, operating parallel to Marty’s.
From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2025
Originally, geological history was divided into four spans of time: primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
And the colors are luscious, richly blended primaries and secondaries and tertiaries that are saturated and sensual and accentuated with blinding highlights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2019
As colour, according to the regular scale descending from white, ceases properly with the last of the tertiaries, olive, in theory the neutral black would here form a fitting conclusion.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
It should be borne in mind that the semi-neutrals, like the secondaries and tertiaries, may be so compounded as to be permanent, semi-stable, or fugitive.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
It is easy to understand the composition of secondaries, but it is not so easy to know the tertiaries and quaternaries.
From Color Value by Clifford, C. R. (Chandler Robbins)
Hence, also, proper quantities of either the three primaries, the three secondaries, or the three tertiaries, produce variously a brown mixture.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
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