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trinity as in:  the Christian trinity

Historically, the exact interpretation of the Trinity was important to Christians, but it is considered a minor detail by most modern Christians.
trinity = God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
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  • She explained the Trinity to the children using the metaphor of water as ice, liquid, and steam.
  • He often referred to Rush's three members—Neil Peart, Alex Lifeson, and Geddy Lee—as "the Holy Trinity" or "the Gods of the North."  (source)
    Trinity = playing off of the Christian concept of God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
  • The missionary ignored him and went on to talk about the Holy Trinity.  (source)
    Trinity = God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
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  • The Holy Trinity.  (source)
    Trinity = God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
  • But once a dead God, always a dead God, even resurrected. The Son must have the taste of death forever in His mouth. The Trinity must be tainted by it; there must be a certain stench at the right hand of God the Father.  (source)
  • I think my father is like the Holy Trinity with three people in him, the one in the morning with the paper, the one at night with the stories and the prayers, and then the one who does the bad thing and comes home with the smell of whiskey and wants us to die for Ireland.  (source)
  • I heard migrant Marlon Sosa Cortez recite the prayer to the Holy Trinity as he rode on top of a train.  (source)
  • The discovery of the procedure to cure deliria is typically credited to Cormac T. Holmes, a neuroscientist who was a member of the initial Consortium of New Scientists and one of the first disciples of the New Religion, which teaches the Holy Trinity of God, Science, and Order.  (source)
    Trinity = playing off of the Christian concept of God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
  • The last brick was set in place as the vicar, having put his glasses back on, made the celebrated pronouncement—man and wife together—and invoked the Trinity after which his church was named.  (source)
    Trinity = God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
  • A STONE GATE BARRED THE ENTRANCE TO TRINITY COLLEGE.†  (source)
  • She packed them off to Trinity College School in Port Hope, where Benjamin and his machinery couldn't coarsen them.†  (source)
  • She's going with a guy from Trinity, which is another private school in Manhattan.†  (source)
  • The closest we come to worship is the Trinity of Visa, MasterCard, and American Express.†  (source)
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trinity as in:  trinity of ideas

The film centered on a trinity of characters, each representing a different stage of life.
trinity = closely connected group of three
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  • The trinity of innovation, dedication, and teamwork led the company to unprecedented success.
  • Here was a very different trinity, indeed.  (source)
  • But when I told Wylie about the trinity, she hooted, What about Edward R. Murrow?  (source)
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  • That unholy trinity to which the common man was enslaved for the next one thousand years.  (source)
    trinity = closely connected group of three
  • Although there's no logical objection to a metaphysical trinity, a three-headed reality, such trinities are not common or popular.†  (source)
    trinities = closely connected groups of three
  • In his growing up in an academic family, there was a secular trinity: NBC, the National League, and the Democratic Party.  (source)
    trinity = closely connected group of three
  • There are four /Trinities/, to say nothing of the inherited Spanish /Trinidads/.†  (source)
    Trinities = closely connected groups of three
  • Bad things come in trinities.†
    trinities = threes
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