trialogue
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of trialogue
1525–35; tri- + (di)alogue, mistaken as a formation with di- 1
Example Sentences
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The European Parliament, which cancelled a press conference expected to announce an agreement earlier this week, said that a "trialogue" meeting had been cancelled today given the lack of consensus.
From The Guardian • Oct. 14, 2010
But they have more nuances of feeling and rueful perceptions than can be imagined or explained easily, or than the elements of a Socratic trialogue have any right to demonstrate.
From Time Magazine Archive
At first, they seem to invite a formal, wooden trialogue that might be entitled "stances to be taken when confronted by the enormities of the past."
From Time Magazine Archive
If you knew how happy it made me that, whenever she interrupted his monopoly of you, instead of making a trialogue with them, you never failed to turn to me!
From The Story of an Untold Love by Ford, Paul Leicester
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