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tetralogy

[te-tral-uh-jee, -trah-luh-] / tɛˈtræl ə dʒi, -ˈtrɑ lə- /


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Billy was born with a condition called tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary atresia, a severe heart defect that occurs in approximately one in 2,500 babies.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2024

Konieczny brought unusual charisma and nobility to the designated villain of Wagner’s epic tetralogy, and his Dutchman is likewise a complex creation.

From New York Times ● May 31, 2023

This one was a tetralogy: The Filipino champion and his Mexican rival met four times over eight years.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

Scurati’s rendering of the turbulent years from 1919 to 1925, the first volume in a projected tetralogy, is translated by Anne Milano Appel.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2022

In New York, on Niemann's second visit, he asked for the privilege of enacting the Volsung's part in the last division of the tetralogy, and studied the part ab initio with Seidl.

From Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Henry Edward Krehbiel

“Richard II” is also our introduction to the Henriad, two tetralogies that trace the path of the English throne from one Richard, through two Henrys, to a final Richard.

From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2020

This blunts the company’s substantial ambition; the current alternating repertory is typical of an expansive approach that will be massively amplified next season with the eight plays of Shakespeare’s “War of the Roses” tetralogies.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2018

The second and more widely known of Shakespeare’s two history tetralogies, the cycle charts the tumult that roils the British kingdom under three successive rulers.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2016

There were great projects, vast and impossible, tetralogies, decalogies, pretending to depict everything in music, covering whole worlds.

From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Gilbert Cannan

Fifteen of Antiphon’s speeches are extant: twelve are mere school exercises on fictitious cases, divided into tetralogies, each consisting of two speeches for prosecution and defence—accusation, defence, reply, counter-reply; three refer to actual legal processes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various


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