daily double

noun

: a system of betting (as on horse races) in which the bettor must pick the winners of two stipulated races in order to win

Examples of daily double in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Now, the place where Bing Crosby crooned about the turf meeting the surf has scored the big-event version of the daily double. —

Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2023 If Houston doesn’t take a quarterback, then the Arizona Cardinals will be in position to make a franchise-altering, NFL-shaking daily double. —

Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 24 Apr. 2023 The Yankees will attempt to pull off the difficult daily double of implementing a youth movement while contending for hardware in a tough division. —

Tony Blengino, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023 And now a Buzzword Bingo daily double: IoT merges with the metaverse. —

Joanna Stern, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023 Another environmental daily double, a precept of both smart growth and climate mitigation, is preserving core forests. —

Tom Condon, Hartford Courant, 11 June 2022 Horizontal exotic bets like a daily double or pick three is a bet comprised of picks across multiple races. —

Xl Media, cleveland, 7 May 2022 It’s the kind of daily double more commonly associated with Hall of Famer Brian Urlacher, who did it five times in his career. —

Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 20 Sep. 2021 Timmons, down four workers and working daily double shifts throughout April, this week decided to close Nicoletta’s on Mondays to preserve his employees’ sanity. —

Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 15 May 2021 See More

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