the three R's
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Gasca has three two-way players who have been three-year starters and is calling them the three R’s — Rashawn Jackson, Robert Lamar and Romeo Signore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2022
Over clanging keyboards and piercing guitar notes that teetered on the edge of tunefulness, Smith sneered and pledged his allegiance to the three R’s: “Repetition, repetition, repetition.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 25, 2018
In an article in Wired magazine in 1993, he dismissed the three R’s — reading, ’riting and ’rithmetic — as outmoded.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2016
Usually we think of the three R’s, but those are skills.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 2, 2015
Remarkably, the three R’s of gene physiology are acutely dependent on the molecular structure of DNA—on the Watson-Crick base pairing of the double helix.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
