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
It has taken time for investor enthusiasm to return to the story, as the secondary and tertiary beneficiaries of AI continue to outperform, Moore noted on Monday.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
The books were rather secondary, or even tertiary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
She has an entire tertiary life, operating parallel to Marty’s.
From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2025
The Hab had secondary and tertiary communications systems, but they were both just for talking to the MAV, which would use its much more powerful systems to relay to Hermes.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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
Hence the mixed tertiaries are still less perfect and pure than the secondaries; and as their hues are of extensive use in painting, original pigments of these colours are proportionably estimable to the artist.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
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 Thomas Salter
All through the range of color, the secondaries and tertiaries as well as the primaries, this principle of complement plays a part.
From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst
There are so many ways of producing the tertiaries, that no difficulty can be found in compounding them with stable pigments.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
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