the three R's
Example Sentences
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Gasca has three two-way players who have been three-year starters and is calling them the three R’s — Rashawn Jackson, Robert Lamar and Romeo Signore.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2022
Over clanging keyboards and piercing guitar notes that teetered on the edge of tunefulness, Smith sneered and pledged his allegiance to the three R’s: “Repetition, repetition, repetition.”
From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2018
Usually we think of the three R’s, but those are skills.
From Washington Times • Jun. 2, 2015
To support his family he began teaching fifth and sixth grade in the public schools in Bloomington, Calif., where, in addition to the three R’s, state law required him to teach art.
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2012
Remarkably, the three R’s of gene physiology are acutely dependent on the molecular structure of DNA—on the Watson-Crick base pairing of the double helix.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
