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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

The three R’s - reading, writing and arithmetic - are, or once were, considered the foundations of a basic skills-oriented education program.

From Washington Times • Nov. 15, 2017

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

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