How to Use triad in a Sentence

triad

noun
  • Some, like Chloe’s triad, are all lovers.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Much needs to be done to get the triad in shape to deal with the challenges ahead.
    — Michaela Dodge, National Review, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Should one leg of the triad fail, one of the other two will prevail.
    — Matthew Gault, WIRED, 22 July 2024
  • But this triad was abandoned long ago, to the detriment of all.
    — Steve Forbes, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The chorus would start with a five chord — a brighter triad that still needs to resolve.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2024
  • First, the triad meets after the coachee and coach have had two to three coaching sessions.
    — Linda Allen-Hardisty, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • In a triad, two people are always closer and risk icing out the third.
    — Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Still, from middle school on, Diana and I were part of a triad.
    — Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2024
  • But what great leader hires Chinese triads to beat up kids and women in the street?
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The culprit may be the glute medius, the middle portion of your glute muscle triad.
    — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 12 May 2023
  • Why did clinicians wrongly trust this triad of symptoms for so long?
    — Jeff Kukucka, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Second, the triad meets as a midway checkpoint.
    — Linda Allen-Hardisty, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • For evidence, take a closer look at last night's triad of side-butt devotees.
    — Lauren Valenti, Marie Claire, 31 Aug. 2015
  • Beyond missiles and bombers The triad is more than launch platforms.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 26 May 2026
  • One, into the use of a guitar as a very orchestral thing with a triad of melody going on.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Cooper dedicates most of his books to the hearth-warming triad of wife and daughters.
    — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Those who scored high on dark triad traits were more likely to use touch to manipulate their partners.
    — Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The whole apparatus hangs on a thin concrete spine, topped by a triad of steel pins that reach far beyond the roof.
    — Curbed, 10 Nov. 2022
  • In fact Sirius, at the bottom of the triad, is the brightest star available in the night sky.
    — Mike Lynch / Sky Watch, Twin Cities, 5 Feb. 2017
  • So, there’s a triad of the Cure, the Smiths, and Oasis on a single song.
    — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 25 May 2023
  • The symptoms develop as a triad, affecting the skin, eyes, and joints.
    — Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The work ends with a rising series of clashing chords, landing on a cheerful B-flat triad.
    — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2023
  • In the book the film is based on, the protagonist is a triad member who’s from Hong Kong.
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • These are the most responsive leg of the nuclear triad as they can be fired and reach targets within minutes.
    — Mark Joseph, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
  • For more on the client-AI-therapist triad, see my discussion at the link here and the link here.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Each triad of the three colors serves as a single pixel in the 1080p image.
    — M. David Stone, PC Magazine, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The results spoke to the true value of breaking down this dark but sacred triad into distinct classes.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Then, in 2018, a review of studies finally put the triad to rest.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2021
  • All this is set against the backdrop of the Chinese triad in San Francisco.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The purpose of this first triad is to ensure all three parties agree on the coaching objectives that guide the engagement.
    — Linda Allen-Hardisty, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025

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