triple crown

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Recent Examples of triple crown The 2021 offensive rookie of the year and 2024 triple crown winner changed his perspective entering this season. Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 9 June 2026 Summer Races For Three-Year-Olds Run Across The Country The Triple Crown series is the most publicized, but the races restricted to three-year-olds are quite numerous as the summer unfolds. Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 8 June 2026 Golden Tempo surged to victory in the 2026 Belmont Stakes on Saturday at Saratoga Springs in New York, capturing the third and final win of the Triple Crown, just a month after winning the Kentucky Derby. CBS News, 6 June 2026 Not present, however, were the hotels whose Palace distinctions were not renewed after the latest nationwide evaluation: Hôtel Du Palais Biarritz - The Unbound Collection by Hyatt; Mandarin Oriental, Paris; and Park Hyatt Paris-Vendôme (a winner of the CNT Triple Crown). Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 June 2026 Napoleon Solo captures the second leg of the Triple Crown at Laurel Park. Toni L. Sandys, Washington Post, 18 May 2026 The second jewel of the Triple Crown is relocating in-state (Maryland) to Laurel Park while the Preakness’s traditional track, the Pimlico Race Course, goes through renovations. Geoff Clark Outkick, FOXNews.com, 16 May 2026 The Times earned prestigious Associated Press Sports Editors triple crown honors for a sixth consecutive year, claimed first place in two individual categories and finished in the top 10 in eight categories. Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for triple crown
Noun
  • Catcher Drew Millas got aboard with a leadoff single and second baseman Nasim Nuñez drove him home with an RBI triple.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 17 June 2026
  • Neto led off the fifth with a towering triple to center field and scored on Trout’s homer a few feet above where Neto’s triple caromed.
    Mark Gonzales, Oc Register, 17 June 2026
Noun
  • Cowan birdied his last hole for a 68 to join former Sooner Max McGreevy and former Oklahoma State player Sam Stevens, the only one of that trio who faced the harsh wind of the morning wave.
    Doug Ferguson, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
  • The trio allegedly lured Naved Azim, a New York resident, to a hotel room at the MGM Grand on the Las Vegas Strip, according to a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department report cited by the newspaper.
    Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 19 June 2026
Noun
  • Hospital officials said that these births are only one of a few times ever that two sets of triplets were born on the same day in the same hospital.
    Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 12 June 2026
  • Splash around in this waterlogged paradise built especially for Shrek’s triplets at Shrek’s Swamp Splash and Smash.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 28 May 2026
Noun
  • Beyond missiles and bombers The triad is more than launch platforms.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 26 May 2026
  • The executive triad and Gervais’s team worked with CBS to find middle ground between the network method and the Love Island spirit.
    Anna Peele, Vulture, 20 May 2026
Noun
  • In my holy trinity of designers, Mugler is at the top, then John Galliano and Alexander McQueen.
    Grace Byron, New Yorker, 14 June 2026
  • Art, resistance, and community, a holy trinity.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • Her odyssey will lead to threesomes and lonely nights, but also difficult questions regarding how her faith and family may leave her perpetually adrift.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
  • Eager to mix up their routines, and drawn to the way the muscular Bruin looks in his He-Man outfit at the Halloween ball, Doane and Con latch on to the idea of a threesome.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • There is simply no arguing with this triumvirate.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 3 June 2026
  • Ben’Imana offers no simple definitions of courage, but rather a feverishly human group portrait of its possible expressions, with the exceptional triumvirate of Nyirinkindi, Kabano and the radiant Nishimwe forming the story’s broken but still hopeful heart.
    Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2026
Noun
  • Çelik said at the press conference that the trilogy as a whole reflects his concern that humanity is moving toward a point where people no longer hear, see or understand one another.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 June 2026
  • Bump refers to his body of work as a trilogy.
    Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2026

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“Triple crown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/triple%20crown. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.

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