tertiary
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Hartnett’s work is dynamic and unsettling, making what could be a forgettable tertiary character into an integral part of the story that viewers hold in the back of their minds, even when he’s offscreen.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
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
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
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
He might dissect, anatomise, and give names; but, not to speak of a final cause, causes in their secondary and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him.
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
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
It is easy to understand the composition of secondaries, but it is not so easy to know the tertiaries and quaternaries.
From Color Value by C. R. (Chandler Robbins) Clifford
This peninsula is partly volcanic, partly composed of tertiaries, on which metal veins are found, especially along the course of the Yoichi River.
From Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. by A. H. Savage Landor
Combined with the primary blue, yellow furnishes all the variety of the secondary green, as well as, subordinately, the tertiaries russet and olive.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
What are called the secondaries are attached to the ulna of the forearm, while the tertiaries occupy the humerus and are next to the body.
From Our Bird Comrades by Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser
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