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to make twice as great or as many
we doubled our investment in six months
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Recent Examples of doubled
OpenAI’s valuation has almost doubled from $300 billion to $500 billion in less than a year.
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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
In the ninth inning, Justyn-Henry Malloy doubled, and Jace Jung drove him home.
—Ryan Ford, Freep.com, 6 Oct. 2025
From 1964 to 1968, as inflation more than doubled, the rise in operating expenses for apartment buildings outpaced the increase allowed under rent control by a factor of three.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
Performance on tests devised by seasoned professionals across banking, law, and consulting has nearly doubled in little more than a year, according to a preliminary study published in late September by data firm, Mercor.
—Harry Booth, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
Unity has more than doubled over the past six months, while Take-Two has soared 32%.
—Fred Imbert, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2025
Coming out of the pandemic, romance print-book sales more than doubled from 2020 to 2023.
—Rebecca Ackermann, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2025
Joaquin Pereyra doubled Minnesota’s lead in the 59th minute, pouncing on a rebound from Pulskamp that could’ve been pushed away in any other direction.
—Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 5 Oct. 2025
And here, titles simultaneously available on at least three different video-on-demand platforms more than doubled (on a percentage basis), from nine percent in 2020 to 21 percent this year.
—Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
In the ninth inning, Justyn-Henry Malloy doubled, and Jace Jung drove him home.
—Ryan Ford, Freep.com, 6 Oct. 2025
From 1964 to 1968, as inflation more than doubled, the rise in operating expenses for apartment buildings outpaced the increase allowed under rent control by a factor of three.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
Performance on tests devised by seasoned professionals across banking, law, and consulting has nearly doubled in little more than a year, according to a preliminary study published in late September by data firm, Mercor.
—Harry Booth, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
Unity has more than doubled over the past six months, while Take-Two has soared 32%.
—Fred Imbert, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2025
Coming out of the pandemic, romance print-book sales more than doubled from 2020 to 2023.
—Rebecca Ackermann, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2025
Joaquin Pereyra doubled Minnesota’s lead in the 59th minute, pouncing on a rebound from Pulskamp that could’ve been pushed away in any other direction.
—Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 5 Oct. 2025
And here, titles simultaneously available on at least three different video-on-demand platforms more than doubled (on a percentage basis), from nine percent in 2020 to 21 percent this year.
—Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for doubled
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In April, the Legislature approved a bill that increased per-student funding for public schools from $7,771 to $8,162.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 Oct. 2025
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Their answers varied greatly, but one area of consensus is that the plan has pulled more state agencies and rural regions into the conversation, which has increased overall awareness of the problem.—
Joan Meiners,
AZCentral.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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Those rosters from the past were mostly homegrown, with a few veterans expertly folded in.—
Grant Brisbee,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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Army leaders say the Switchblade is one of several technologies being folded into armored units as the service adapts lessons from Ukraine and other conflicts, where drones have played an outsized role.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Sep. 2025
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Soon, raspberries multiplied across their yard.—
Mark Dent,
HubSpot,
3 Oct. 2025
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To some, the positional requirement is the way to go and that the baseline should be starting line up multiplied by team size – essentially, the true definition of replacement.—
Dom Luszczyszyn,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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If your data is duplicated, incomplete or inconsistent, AI will accelerate the chaos.—
Kevin Campbell,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Other arrests were duplicated entirely, and researchers have cautioned that ICE’s data at times has had inaccurate or missing information.—
Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
8 Sep. 2025
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Seeing Gaza in ruins has redoubled my determination to do two things.—
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib,
The Atlantic,
23 Sep. 2025
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Trump has given a tacit green light to the operation, even as his national security team has redoubled efforts to achieve a ceasefire and hostage release deal.—
Laura Kelly,
The Hill,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Doubled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doubled. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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