Non-commuting projection operators on a Hilbert space

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Let $H$ be a separable Hilbert space. Can you provide an example of 3 orthogonal projection operators which are mutually non-commuting?

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Take three distinct unit vectors which are not pairwise orthogonal, and consider the orthogonal projections on the lines they span.