tertiary
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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
It has taken time for investor enthusiasm to return to the story, as the secondary and tertiary beneficiaries of AI continue to outperform, Moore noted on Monday.
From Barron's ● May 18, 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
Originally, geological history was divided into four spans of time: primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary.
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
Besides these tertiaries, as they were called, still wider circles sought the friars' direction in all spiritual matters and showed eagerness to be buried within their sanctuaries.
From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by William Hunt
The pale sage-green back is covered with large lemon spots, some of which extend to the scapulars and tertiaries.
From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Walter J. Buck
It is said to have belonged to the tertiaries of S. Dominic till a century or so back, and was then used as a store.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson
The tertiaries and rectrices are tipped with pale rufous grey.
From Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
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