triumvir
/tɹˈaɪəmvˌɪɹ/
nounone of a group of three sharing public administration or civil authority especially in ancient Rome
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1. And what better way to secure that guarantee than by seducing a Triumvir?
2. That winter in Alexandria, the Queen and the Triumvir were inseparable.
3. Lepidus, the future triumvir and current governor of Hispania Citerior, had intervened in Hispania Ulterior, stabilising the region.
4. In 54 BC Julia died in childbirth, severing the personal connection between the two triumvirs.
5. The death of the triumvir and the destruction of his army destabilised the political situation in Rome, leading to an eventual fracture between Pompey and Caesar.
to trisect
/tɹˈaɪsɛkt/
verbcut in three
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1. It’s been dissected, bisected, trisected, vivisected and thoroughly examined by the internet at large, but I think it’s time to look even deeper.
tripod
/ˈtɹaɪˌpɑd/
nouna three-legged rack used for support
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1. I got a tripod.
2. He's got tripods.
3. Even broke the tripod on the last run.
4. My tripod is a stack of pods.
5. The tripod is stuck.
triplicity
/tɹɪplˈɪsɪɾi/
nounthe property of being triple
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to triplicate
/ˈtɹɪpɫɪkət/
verbreproduce threefold
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1. I don't really have to fill out forms in triplicate in order to make an episode of Crash Course, but this kind of stuff is one of the main reasons that people don't like bureaucracies.
2. The Archives have the records that survived in war, quite frankly filling out the forms in triplicate isn't the highest committee and getting them back to headquarters is not always a simple process.
3. But if you want to host a school event, you're gonna need-- Waivers, signed in triplicate by Calhoun.
4. Like, everything that we have to pay, we could pay in triplicate if we needed to.
5. And it comes out in January, and I hope you all buy it in triplicate.
trinity
/ˈtɹɪnəti/, /ˈtɹɪnɪti/
nounthree people considered as a unit
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1. Finishing out the trinity, what about Thor?
2. Chinese food is the trinity.
3. These three countries make the trinity of the Mediterranean.
4. Yes, the holy trinity makes great watches.
5. - Trinity did borrow things.
triennial
/tɹaɪˈɛniəɫ/
adjectiveoccurring every third year or lasting 3 years
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1. The Protector with a council and triennial parliaments was continued, but the ancient constitution was largely restored including a so-called Other House, a kind of House of Lords of nominated members.
trident
/ˈtɹaɪdənt/
nouna three-pronged spear or fork, historically used for fishing and hunting but also associated with various mythological gods and figures
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1. - Beware my deadly trident.
2. Tekoi tested Tridents.
3. And of course, selling Trident gum.
4. - It's Trident.
5. It's Trident.
tricycle
/ˈtɹɪsɪkəɫ/
nouna vehicle with three wheels that is typically ridden by children and has pedals and handlebars for steering
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1. It looks like a tricycle under him.
2. They sound like tricycles in comparison with these theremin.
3. City bikes, mountain bikes, road bikes, and we also do tricycles for kids.
4. He's got that tricycle.
5. We both ride giant tricycles for a living.
tricolor
/tɹˈaɪkʌlɚ/
adjectivehaving or involving three colors
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1. The Russian tricolor became the inspiration for flags of many countries in eastern and southern Europe.
2. Yet, they both have a tricolor in the same order of colors as their national banner.
3. The flag is a horizontal tricolor of black, red and gold.
4. The flag is a tricolor flag of three, equally sized, horizontal bands of blue, black and white.
5. The Afghani flag is a tricolor band of three different colors: red, black and green.
triad
/ˈtɹaɪˌæd/
nounthree people considered as a unit
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1. Again, the triad's up there.
2. And here, a D major triad just to cleanse the palate.
3. And this negative cognitive triad is fed by specific cognitive deficits or biases.
4. no other triad on this cube has that same frequency ratio.
5. At the same time, triad gangsters attacked pro-democracy campaigners in Yuen Long, a district of the new territories.
amalgam
/əˈmæɫɡəm/
nouna combination or blend of different things
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1. Truck art is an amalgam of different influences, old and new, religious and secular, meaningful and trendy.
2. This performance was sort of an amalgam of Rupert's vision in terms of the narrative and her own performance of this song.
3. So they're amalgams of different real people.
4. The Romantic Ideology is an amalgam of two titles.
5. The result becomes an amalgam of the nightmarish anglerfish and the corkiness of your average flounder.
to amalgamate
/əˈmæɫɡəˌmeɪt/
verbto bring or combine together or with something else
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1. If you can amalgamate these four elements, you'll have a good gamer space.
2. A Latin culture became amalgamated to a German one.
3. But if your money is totally amalgamated with the other person's money, you may not even be able to do that if the other person is spending up to a certain amount in their living costs.
4. And it's weird to put nails in there to try to like amalgamate that action.
5. Then they opened up the brewery and kind of amalgamated the two businesses.
to amass
/əˈmæs/
verbto gather a large amount of money, knowledge, etc. gradually
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1. BTS amassed their fortune through their music, album sales, concerts, merchandise, and brand deals.
2. It amassed glowing reviews, critical acclaim, as well as an Emmy and a Peabody award.
3. Ultimately, the petition amassed around 9,000 signatures.
4. The queen has essentially amassed a museum's worth of art.
5. Her official Twitter page has amassed a small following of just under 20,000.
to detract
/dɪˈtɹækt/
verbtake away a part from; diminish
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1. But don't let one man's errors, few minor missteps detract from the major issue.
2. And detracting significantly from mouthfeel.
3. It did detract a bit.
4. It did detract a bit.
5. One shouldn’t let that detract from one’s overall opinion.
detraction
/dɪtɹˈækʃən/
nounthe act of discrediting or detracting from someone's reputation (especially by slander)
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to inveigh
/ɪnvˈeɪ/
verbcomplain bitterly
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1. Amos 1 and 2 contains seven of these oracles that inveigh against the nations.
2. Because with a few wonderful exceptions, very often when religious people come together, religious leaders come together, they're arguing about abstruse doctrines or uttering a council of hatred or inveighing against homosexuality or something of that sort.
to inveigle
/ɪnvˈeɪɡəl/
verbinfluence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
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1. And you are getting the purest of the pure and they're not going to try to inveigle you into some fancy religion or get your money.
2. My friend Martha Minow had inveigled to get us there.
pinion
/ˈpɪnjən/
nounwing of a bird
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1. These include rack and pinion, pulleys and belts, worm gears, or bevel gears.
2. This pinion slides over the center wheel's shaft.
3. The center wheel also drives the pinion of the third wheel, which is intermediate.
4. And running thousands of miles with it at the wrong angle is eventually gonna wear out the pinion gears.
5. but anyway it had rack and pinion steering it did not have power steering on that vehicle
pinioned
/pˈɪniənd/
adjective(of birds) especially having the flight feathers
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