triads
- plural of triad.
Example Sentences
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Triads joined in varying permutations in order to build the objects, or “wholes,” we experience.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
This textured NYC thriller has the pulpiest of set-ups: a young Chinese girl is lost and alone on the streets, pursued by the Triads and crooked cops.
From The Guardian • Jul. 25, 2019
"Triads do not work everywhere. Possibly it is logistically harder to attack areas that are more international, downtown, and diverse."
From BBC • Jul. 22, 2019
Many residents have criticized ineffective police handling of the unrest in Mong Kok, a traditional stronghold of Hong Kong's notorious organized crime gangs, or Triads.
From Reuters • Oct. 6, 2014
Triads are the chords around which every harmonic, or chordal, journey is structured, in virtually all the Western music written between the early fifteenth century and our own time.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
