How to Use dyad in a Sentence

dyad

noun
  • And sister-sister dyads have quite a bit of warmth in them.
    — Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The professor and the politician are a dyad of perpetual myth.
    — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Perhaps even the relationship, the dusty old dyad of man and woman, was now slightly antique.
    — James Marcus, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • In the later songs, the dyad is more abstractly the speaker and himself, and the lyrics take on a more rhetorical resonance.
    — Brandon Taylor, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Could the Biden administration allow a leg of the triad to age out, resulting in a dyad?
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Because the data for each pair are interdependent, the data were analyzed at the level of the dyad.
    — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2012
  • Yet individualism, the other side of that dyad, will not leave Thompson at peace either.
    — Kenneth W. MacK, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Before long, Colin has buzzed his hair and fallen in with Ray’s biker gang, many of whose members are paired off in sub-dom dyads of their own.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Parenthood is, to me, a dyad that creates the most complex and fascinating spectrum of emotion in a person’s life.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 15 Oct. 2022
  • The dyad-ic duo also uses the Force to stop ships from taking off and pass objects through their Force Facetime sessions.
    — Joey Morona, cleveland, 20 Dec. 2019
  • The second section, about Elio and Michel, reprises the May-December dyad.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Human milk feedings have been shown to improve health outcomes across the life course for birthing people and their infants, increase bonding between the dyad, and reduce health care costs.
    — Jamila K. Taylor, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Regardless of dyad type, participants who were touched consumed more alcohol than participants who were not touched.
    — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2012
  • If Blackness is necessary as the inferior pole to an eternal, immutable dyad, nothing can ever change.
    — Hari Kunzru, The New York Review of Books, 8 Sep. 2020
  • According to Pickens, a month into the six-month trial, six dyads — which refers to a senior and their caregiver — were enrolled in the pilot study.
    — Melanie Feuk, Houston Chronicle, 6 June 2019
  • Sometimes the other half of a Pecknoldian dyad isn’t even another person but a different version of the speaker himself.
    — Brandon Taylor, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Most of the sharing dyads, almost 67 percent, were unrelated, so kinship also wasn’t a driving factor.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Worse, a third nuclear superpower, China, is turning the former dyad into a triad.
    — Andreas Kluth, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Therapy is shifting from the classic dyad of therapist-client to the new triad of therapist-AI-client, see my discussion at the link here.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Researchers measured hair cortisol levels (an indicator of chronic stress) in dog-human dyads and found a strong degree of interspecies synchronization.
    — Daphne Miller, Washington Post, 1 July 2019
  • Researchers measured hair cortisol levels (an indicator of chronic stress) in dog-human dyads and found a strong degree of interspecies synchronization.
    — Daphne Miller, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2019
  • The researchers also collected information on pairs of people known to interact with each other—dyads—as well as employee attributes, including gender, role, and desk location.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 13 July 2018
  • Genetic testing means that clinicians will have to practice genetic counseling at visits that may need to expand from the dyad of patient and caregiver to include an extended and worried family.
    — Jason Karlawish, STAT, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Remember to consider desire as a broad spectrum, one that includes willingness, not just want, says Guralnik, and create conditions that emphasize a dyad, not just a family matrix.
    — Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Some similar relationships flower into productive, loving dyads.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Infiniti and Halliday joked about the amount of material at their disposal when getting into character as The Testaments' core dyad.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The implosion of another important health care dyad — clinicians and C-suite administrators — has received much less attention, despite the fact that those relationships are on life support.
    — Christine Bechtel, STAT, 28 July 2022
  • In international relation dyads, this is a death knell for trust, and soon other nations will be wary of providing information to those hardworking individuals in the intelligence community.
    — Mark Hertling, CNN, 16 May 2017
  • After the nuptials, hundreds of dyads will renew their vows as part of Love in Times Square, a long-running tradition held by the Times Square Alliance, a neighborhood nonprofit.
    — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Caregivers and infants are really a dyad—their outcomes and health play into each other’s, Clayton Shuman, a maternal-infant-health researcher at the University of Michigan, told me.
    — Katharine Gammon, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2022

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