three R's
Example Sentences
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You’re in such a unique position because vintage dealers are often checking off each box in the three R’s of recycling: reduce, reuse, recycle.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2023
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
The three R’s - reading, writing and arithmetic - are, or once were, considered the foundations of a basic skills-oriented education program.
From Washington Times • Nov. 15, 2017
The truth: They specialise in indie's three R's: jolly, jaunty joy.
From The Guardian • Feb. 7, 2013
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
