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[tril-uh-jee] / ˈtrɪl ə dʒi /












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It is the first in a trilogy by Nigerian-American author Tomi Adeyemi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Gina Prince-Bythewood, director of Bafta-nominated historical drama The Woman King.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

A coming-of-age trilogy that traverses icy seas and snowy mountains concludes among the everyday struggles of an Icelandic village.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

Staying at welterweight may keep the door ajar for a trilogy with McGregor but he remains untested in the division and would need to jump over more hurdles to get close to the title conversation.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

Particularly in his “Young England” trilogy of the 1840s, he emphasized the divide between rich and poor opened by urbanization and the Industrial Revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

Violet and I just watched the trilogy for twelve hours of Aragorn.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

He wrote more than two dozen books, including Cold War spy trilogies and World War II nonfiction.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 27, 2026

Boyens, along with with Jackson and screenwriter Fran Walsh, oversaw the “LOTR” and The Hobbit” film trilogies.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 25, 2026

The novel was the first of three Samson trilogies that Deighton produced between 1983 and 1996.

From BBC Mar. 17, 2026

"For all the scope and detail lovingly packed into the two trilogies, the vast, complex and dazzling universe dreamed up by J.R.R. Tolkien remains largely unexplored on film," Warner Bros.

From Reuters Feb. 24, 2023

Why, if the old Greeks had had this man, what trilogies of plays—what epics—would have been made out of him!

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt




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