as in trios
a group of three
the theater piece is actually a triplet of comedy sketches, all of them having romantic love as their theme
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Recent Examples of triplets
The solo ghost features seven LED lights while the triplets include 30.
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Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Sep. 2025
Powell and Ellie are part of triplets with their brother Henry, and Lily arrived 17 months later.
—Bryan West, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
To put that into perspective, Pluym says there's about a 1 in 10,000 chance of having triplets in general, which is already pretty rare.
—David Chiu, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Blake and Logan Miller are triplets.
—John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
The week before, the paper featured a set of East Garfield Park triplets headed to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on full-ride scholarships in the fall.
—Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
Identical triplets are even better.
—Air Mail, 23 Aug. 2025
The triplets, who just turned one, are naturally very playful with one another.
—Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
Five years after their adoption, the boys, then 13, 11 and 8-year-old triplets, were removed from the Edmonsons’ home by court order in February.
—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 27 Dec. 2024
Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Sep. 2025
Powell and Ellie are part of triplets with their brother Henry, and Lily arrived 17 months later.
—Bryan West, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
To put that into perspective, Pluym says there's about a 1 in 10,000 chance of having triplets in general, which is already pretty rare.
—David Chiu, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Blake and Logan Miller are triplets.
—John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
The week before, the paper featured a set of East Garfield Park triplets headed to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on full-ride scholarships in the fall.
—Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
Identical triplets are even better.
—Air Mail, 23 Aug. 2025
The triplets, who just turned one, are naturally very playful with one another.
—Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
Five years after their adoption, the boys, then 13, 11 and 8-year-old triplets, were removed from the Edmonsons’ home by court order in February.
—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 27 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for triplets
Noun
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But, in trios, the math often adds up to two against one.—
Fawnia Soo Hoo,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Aug. 2025
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Pairs, trios and teams perform to music.—
Bay Area News Group,
Mercury News,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The real Martinů giveaway is an underlying buzz of activity in the piano and the harp—D-minor triads mixed with C-sharp-minor, B-flat-major, and E-flat-major ones, suggesting a rickety machinery behind the lyrical action.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Total lunar eclipses — which always occur during a full moon — often arrive in triads, accompanied by at least one solar eclipse two weeks before and/or after.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Triplets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/triplets. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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