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
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
The books were rather secondary, or even tertiary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 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Today only tertiary remains as a common designation everywhere, even though it no longer represents a third period of anything.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
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
There are so many ways of producing the tertiaries, that no difficulty can be found in compounding them with stable pigments.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
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
It should be borne in mind that the semi-neutrals, like the secondaries and tertiaries, may be so compounded as to be permanent, semi-stable, or fugitive.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
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