triad

Example Sentences

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Artists, mass media, infrastructure — the thriving triad was extraordinary to watch erupt.

From Los Angeles Times

Unlike Pakistan, however, India has a nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine that completes its “nuclear triad” – the ability to launch nuclear strikes by land, air and sea.

From Reuters

Putin’s decree applied to all parts of the Russian nuclear triad, which like in the U.S., consists of nuclear submarines armed with intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear-tipped land-based ICBMs and nuclear-capable strategic bombers.

From Seattle Times

The Defense Ministry issued a statement saying that the bombers, submarines and land-based launchers that make up Russia’s nuclear “triad” had been put on “enhanced combat duty,” as Putin had ordered Sunday.

From Seattle Times

In a piece about the power and pitfalls of storytelling, Jonathan Gottschall notes that, in the tales we tell, we tend to divide people into a tidy triad of heroes, victims and villains.

From Salon