tertiary
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Investors instead have been gravitating to what Morgan Stanley analyst Joe Moore described as “secondary and tertiary AI beneficiaries” that are also benefiting from the booming investment cycle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
The books were rather secondary, or even tertiary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
"The drug creates an immune microenvironment within the tumor, and essentially replaces the tumor with these tertiary lymphoid structures."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 16, 2026
That has secondary and tertiary effects, because spending on digital infrastructure boosts demand for power turbines and cooling equipment, as well.
From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025
The Hab had secondary and tertiary communications systems, but they were both just for talking to the MAV, which would use its much more powerful systems to relay to Hermes.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
And the colors are luscious, richly blended primaries and secondaries and tertiaries that are saturated and sensual and accentuated with blinding highlights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2019
Description.—White; neck behind and body beneath banded with black; primaries, greater wing-coverts, tertiaries, and scapulars cinereous; rump and tail-feathers ashy black; bill black; feet dark plumbeous: whole length 26·0 inches, wing 16·0, tail 5·5.
From Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
Hence the mixed tertiaries are still less perfect and pure than the secondaries; and as their hues are of extensive use in painting, original pigments of these colours are proportionably estimable to the artist.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
The second circle is composed of the secondaries; the third circle, the tertiaries, and the outer circle, the quaternaries.
From Color Value by Clifford, C. R. (Chandler Robbins)
But besides these full members there is an enormous number of lay adherents, like the tertiaries of the Franciscans.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
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