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tricolor

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noun

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Recent Examples of tricolor
Adjective
Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party remains an unrepentant bastion of the hard right, up to and including a tricolor flame in its logo that evokes a now-defunct party made up of the political remnants of Mussolini’s fascists. Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 13 June 2024 The symbol of the Brothers of Italy is a tricolor flame, previously used by a neo-fascist party, and its hostility to immigrants remains firm. Roger Cohen, New York Times, 5 May 2024
Noun
Red, white and blue all over, the design features a flag trim alternating between France’s tricolor ensign and Britain’s Union Jack. Leah Dolan, CNN, 1 Aug. 2024 Thomas Martine, a France saber fencer sitting behind me, went into a long soliloquy afterward, while wearing a French tricolor wig. Sean Gregory / Paris, TIME, 28 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for tricolor 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tricolor
Noun
  • With the wave of a figurative white flag, could gentle parenting be moving to the fringes of the parenting zeitgeist alongside helicopter and snowplow parenting — philosophies that encouraged parents to hover over their child and remove all obstacles from their path?
    Lynda Lin Grigsby, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2024
  • According to one account, Little Thunder approached Harney holding an umbrella as a makeshift white flag.
    Tim Madigan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • But their gray world is rich in attributes that might otherwise pale in our trichromatic, million-color world.
    Kanya Kanchana, Longreads, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Helmholtz’s theory was that our vision was trichromatic, based on three fundamental colors: red, green, and blue, which can be combined to make any other color.
    The Lost Women of Science Initiative, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2023
Adjective
  • In Caroline Absher’s colossal, mostly-dichromatic self-portrait Studio, the artist looks down at the viewer, who crouches or sits beneath her.
    Dallas News, Dallas News, 6 May 2022
  • Álvaro's subjects were 32 trichromats (a mix of men and women) and 32 dichromatic men (a mix of the green-lacking and red-lacking subtypes).
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2015
Adjective
  • Its bicolored glasses were made from Sapphire and Mozambique baguette Ruby while its own earring was fashioned from a yellow diamond.
    Stephanie Hirschmiller, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Its bicolored yellowy-orange and pink blooms have a moderate to strong fragrance.
    Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
Noun
  • The Wings Event Center, where the event was held, was festooned with bunting and flags—this rally was meant to be televised.
    Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
  • The hall should be draped in purple bunting, and purple balloons must rain down from the rafters.
    Julie Garel, Baltimore Sun, 17 July 2024
Noun
  • In line with the Princess of Wales' attire, the Duchess of Edinburgh also donned a blue and red cape over her gown, a nod to the colors of the union jack.
    Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 7 May 2023
  • One dessert that stands out from all the cupcakes, cookies and biscuits decorated with crowns and union jacks is the Jack Russel cake, which brings to mind the king and queen consort's two Jack Russell terriers.
    Karina Zaiets, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2023
Adjective
  • The tunic silhouette is designed to hit mid-thigh on most people, and it’s finished with banded detailing at the cuffs and hem.
    Jamie Allison Sanders, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024
  • It's named for its beautiful onyx formations, a type of banded calcite that gives the cave its distinctive appearance.
    Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The crowd moved slowly because of its size, with some cyclists carrying the Chinese flag and some people sleeping on the ground in a park after arriving in Kaifeng, according to photos and videos shared with NBC News.
    Peter Guo, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Yeah, Nikola Jokic carried the flag, the way only a generational MVP can, with 27 points, 15 rebounds and 14.3 assists per game.
    Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 9 Nov. 2024

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“Tricolor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tricolor. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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