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triplet

noun as in triad

noun as in trio

noun as in triumvirate

noun as in troika

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From the time the triplets started kindergarten, he was an enthusiastic member of the school community, serving on the parent-teacher organization, attending board meetings and even volunteering on Kinnon’s political campaigns.

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They have a great loving family, 23-year-old triplets and 21-year-old twins.

For example, extremely preterm twins and triplets often fare worse than single-born babies.

The number of extremely preterm twins and triplets, who often fare poorly, also did not explain the death-rate disparity.

It also contains most of the atmosphere’s ozone, triplet molecules made from three oxygen atoms.

Triplet panda cubs born this past July were reunited with their mother, Juxiao, in a Chinese zoo this week.

Music aficionados recognize this rhythm as a triplet or “hemiola”: the playing of two different musical patterns simultaneously.

During that same age span, the percentage of ART-assisted triplet pregnancies soars from 40 percent to 80 percent.

I think that privately we thought him something worse than a triplet, but we neither knew quite how to say it.

A stanza of two lines is called a couplet; of three lines, a triplet; of four lines, a quatrain.

Triplet thanked her for her condescension; he would wait for Mr. Vane in the hall.

For Triplet looked like an absurd wolf—all benevolence and starvation!

A grampus was heard outside the door, and Triplet opened it.

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On this page you'll find 154 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to triplet, such as: ternary, ternion, third, triad, trichotomy, and trilogy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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