tertiary
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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
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
Everything in “Mother Mary” feels like it exists in a dream within a dream: the tertiary characters who fade in and out of the narrative, the catchy yet indistinct pop songs, the dreary midnight-blue location.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026
In some books, too, you will find the tertiary and quaternary taken out and replaced by periods of different lengths called the Palaeogene and Neogene.
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
Amid the sober richness of weeds hung the amber of sponge-growths, blonds to enhance intense tertiaries.
From The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman
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
From the primaries various degrees of warmth and coldness characterize the secondaries and tertiaries, as they contain more or less proportionately of the warm or cold primaries.
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
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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