three R's

Example Sentences

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There are three R’s you need to get done over the weekend: rest, repair and recreate.

From Washington Post • Feb. 27, 2023

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

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