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

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

"At whatever cost" was the naked doc trine of the necessities of power.

From Time Magazine Archive

I began with the confessing God to be one in nature, and trine in Persons; I afterwards repeated distinctly, and with an audible voice, the Lord's prayer, the angelical salutation, and the apostles' creed.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 16 by Scott, Walter, Sir