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- noun Plural form of
dyad .
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Examples
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We performed a prospective cohort study, including 21 121 mother-child-dyads from the Danish
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Teresa A. Ajslev et al. 2010
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Others are termed dyads, have a valency of two, two monads being required to saturate one dyad, while one dyad can saturate another dyad.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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The "natural hierarchy" of the "wu lun," five key relationship "dyads" that dictate human intercourse, will be maintained.
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Chinese citizens have always had great faith in, even reverence for, strong central leadership, a manifestation of the wu lun, or five key relationship "dyads" that constitute all ordered society.
Tom Doctoroff: Books That Reveal China's Cultural Constitution 2009
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The contrived environment allows the opportunity to pair up the parties into "dyads" for dyadic assessments.
Sourcing Innovation 2009
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Examining interactions between states from 1816 to 2000, the authors focused on pairs of countries, or "dyads."
Week in Ideas Christopher Shea 2011
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If you insist on dyads, here is a useful one: Mr. Yglesias, either you are part of the problem, or you are part of the solution, and you are part of the problem.
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However, the real battle for our youth is at home, within the psychic dyads and triads of the parental unit. ...
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: Parricide (Part 2): Is Our Detached Society to Blame? Judith Acosta 2010
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However, the real battle for our youth is at home, within the psychic dyads and triads of the parental unit. ...
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: Parricide (Part 2): Is Our Detached Society to Blame? Judith Acosta 2010
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These old ways of approaching the world—these us-versus-them dyads—are not just benign anachronisms.
Superfusion Zachary Karabell 2009
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