How to Use troika in a Sentence

troika

noun
  • A troika of countries signed the agreement.
  • Of the main troika, only Kraft remains with the team.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 31 Mar. 2026
  • What used to be a tango between the doctor and patient is now a troika.
    — Danielle Ofri, STAT, 31 Oct. 2019
  • After the troika at the top, the player with the highest odds of winning this event?
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 2 July 2019
  • Chekhov nearly perished in a collision with a mail troika and might have drowned in a flood.
    — The Economist, 4 July 2020
  • The Scream Queens troika had already come up with a plan for season three.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
  • But most of his tenure was marked by unified public consensus among the troika.
    — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2017
  • However, this troika didn’t last long with Ehrlich leaving less than a year later.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2025
  • However, the troika found little room among the airtight long-term contracts most teams and leagues carried.
    — Matt Craig, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The set list drew from Isbell’s impressive troika of recent albums.
    — Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 20 June 2017
  • Spike Lee took smartphone pics of the troika as the professionals’ cameras stuttered and flashed.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2021
  • And that troika is still a work in progress — the Warriors, rightly, didn’t close with Porzingis on Wednesday.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Whether the federal government is able to make good on that declaration will depend on a troika of factors.
    — Baruch Fischhoff, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Among the leading superstars for the past generation, for instance, has been a troika of Muslim men.
    — Taran Khan, The Dial, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Instead, a troika of justices carved out a new undue-burden standard to replace Roe’s troubled trimester framework.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2021
  • There’s been no buzz that Here will land a place at the fall’s film festival troika of Toronto, Venice and Telluride.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2024
  • King Sport added the third game in 2006, and the latest Bird Day troika should not disappoint.
    — Miami Herald, 25 Nov. 2025
  • The punishing Scherzer-Strasburg-Corbin troika always gave them a chance.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2019
  • China has joined a geographic troika trying to get around the US block by issuing their own statement.
    — Richard Roth, CNN, 18 May 2021
  • If only one of Philly’s troika reaches superstardom, the 76ers will have a long way to go to catch the Warriors.
    — SI.com, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Overall, Harris’s troika of low- and middle-income tax cuts would benefit only a bit more than one-quarter of households.
    — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Making changes to the troika is an area where Warsh will need maximum political capital, Faust said.
    — Matt Peterson, CNBC, 15 June 2026
  • In the seventh, as the Rangers took the lead, the Semien-García-Seager troika each had singles in a two-run rally.
    — Dallas News, 25 Apr. 2022
  • While studios are looking to play off the heat of the fall film festival troika, there’s an argument to be made that the plan should be for success at the box office first, and awards play after.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
  • For instance, instead of being forced to compromise the way co-CEOs often are, two members of a troika can just outvote a third.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2024
  • Everyone wants to lay hands on Stasi files — the KGB has sent a troika of thugs to exercise their own methods of securing them.
    — Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 29 July 2022
  • There was reported infighting throughout the season that seemed to threaten the power troika atop New England’s dynasty.
    — Conor Orr, SI.com, 30 Jan. 2018
  • The troika chose the Hall of Heroes for their venue—a room that showcases the Medal of Honor, our country’s highest award for valor in combat.
    — Phillip Carter, Slate Magazine, 28 Jan. 2017
  • Sale missed two full seasons because of Tommy John surgery on his left elbow and was allowed to return to the bigs against a troika of cupcakes (Hostess sells them only in pairs).
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The foundation, which would wind up spending $1 billion over the next 40 years on the project, ordered the two groups to merge, with a troika of two experimentalists, Drs.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2017

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