tertiary
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Investors instead have been gravitating to what Morgan Stanley analyst Joe Moore described as “secondary and tertiary AI beneficiaries” that are also benefiting from the booming investment cycle.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
Everything in “Mother Mary” feels like it exists in a dream within a dream: the tertiary characters who fade in and out of the narrative, the catchy yet indistinct pop songs, the dreary midnight-blue location.
From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026
The books were rather secondary, or even tertiary.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
"The drug creates an immune microenvironment within the tumor, and essentially replaces the tumor with these tertiary lymphoid structures."
From Science Daily • Mar. 16, 2026
Originally, geological history was divided into four spans of time: primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing tertiary
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