trine

Example Sentences

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For example, when two planets are in harmony, they could be trine to one another, which is when they are 120 degrees apart.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2023

Clinton and her running mate Tim Kaine, in contrast, have their suns making a trine – an angle of 120 degrees.

From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2016

But the men who made it believed in the doc trine that there are many "rights" anterior to government, and that these rights belong to all the people.

From Time Magazine Archive

The last definite vestige of a foreign policy which this nation has exhibited was the enunciation of the Monroe Doc trine.

From Time Magazine Archive

The world-protectors are the eight gods next below the trine supreme, Brahma, Siva, and Vishnu.

From Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems by Milman, Henry Hart