as in dual
consisting of two members or parts that are usually joined the double-barreled goal of the company is to do well in the marketplace and to do good in the community

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Recent Examples of double-barreled The Ukrainian Navy patrol boat zipped across the Black Sea, its double-barreled, 25-millimeter machine gun locked on the horizon. Constant Méheut, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025 Wall Street will give close watch to the double-barreled release from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which will show the levels of personal income and spending for February, as well as the latest reading on personal consumption expenditures prices. Jeff Cox, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2025 The latest entry in this series is a new double-barreled bourbon that is bottled at a totally reasonable 100 proof, and is quite delicious. Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 7 Feb. 2025 The double-barreled title of Nightbitch satirizes both feminism and female self-loathing. Armond White, National Review, 13 Dec. 2024 The double-barreled joke played Vance's past comments noting that only women with families cared about the fate of the nation. Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2024 Ruidoso, a scenic town of nearly 8,000 in southern New Mexico, is at the mercy of an enduring, double-barreled disaster. Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 21 July 2024 Then an older man steps out of a nearby house and walks toward him with a long, double-barreled gun. Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024 Low-income communities of color are particularly vulnerable to this double-barreled threat driven by climate change, according to the paper published Friday in the journal Science Advances. Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for double-barreled
Adjective
  • So, Rice at the base with Merino and Trossard having dual roles seems more realistic.
    Art de Roché, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Included is a shelving unit that has dual folding side shelves that provide plenty of prep space.
    Christopher Murray, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2025
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  • Mars Is Electric is the California rapper’s follow-up to his twin 2023 releases Even God Has a Sense of Humor and Debbie’s Son.
    Walden Green, Pitchfork, 29 Apr. 2025
  • There’s an entire subset of digital twin specialists spanning IoT AI toolsets, including o9 Solutions, Bentley Systems, Siemens and General Electric.
    Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • These neurons conduct electrical pulses that carry information, much like how computers use binary code to carry data.
    Takaki Komiyama, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Furthermore, the chance of stellar bodies having a binary partner increases with mass, making a double-brown-dwarf star system pretty surprising.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 16 Apr. 2025

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“Double-barreled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/double-barreled. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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