tertiary

In the Arctic Yukon, however, the cats occupied a very different ecological role as tertiary consumers and likely specialized in anadromous fish such as salmon.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026

Nigeria's tertiary education completion rate is 11.3 out of every 100 people.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

LeBron James exemplified the mantra when he shape-shifted from the high-usage star he’s been for more than two decades to the most accomplished tertiary option in NBA history.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2026

Today only tertiary remains as a common designation everywhere, even though it no longer represents a third period of anything.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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

Hence they are respectively the red and blue tertiaries.

From Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition by Christopher Dresser

As colour, according to the regular scale descending from white, ceases properly with the last of the tertiaries, olive, in theory the neutral black would here form a fitting conclusion.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter

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

Complementary colors mixed, or so placed that small portions of them are side by side, as in hatching or stippling, give the tertiaries or grays by the mixing of the rays.

From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst