doubled

past tense of double
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as in folded
to lay one part over or against another part of double the wet cloth and place it on the victim's forehead

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Recent Examples of doubled Applicants per open role has doubled since 2022, and recruiters are now sorting through hundreds of applications for a single hire. Dana Taylor, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026 Market reports suggested that drop corresponded with a 3 percent increase of rental prices in June, which was quickly doubled to a 6 percent increase in July, as available units continued to decrease through August. Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2026 In July, TikTok ran an ad that could have doubled as evidence in a drug bust. Iain Martin, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026 Between 2010 and 2024, the number of people between eighteen and twenty-nine who reported not having sex in the past year doubled, from twelve to twenty-four per cent. Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026 With the game tied at 4, Josh Bell doubled off Victor Mederos (2-1) with one out in the seventh inning and Clemens followed with an RBI single against Dylan Lee. CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026 The club’s full-season ticket membership base has doubled since the 2019-20 season, while average attendance per game has gone up 50% in that same timeframe, according to a press release. Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 20 Aug. 2026 Our linen closet has long doubled as a medicine station — stocked with bronchodilators, pinworm pills, antiviral medication, pain relief patches, pulse oximeters and nebulizers, vials of Prednisone, even EpiPen injectors. Allan Ripp, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026 There’s the fact that the share of the national income that the country’s wealthiest controlled by the end of the 2010s had nearly doubled since the 1970s—but for the bottom 50 percent of Americans, it had been cut nearly in half. Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2026
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Verb
  • Diagnoses of autism, a neurodevelopmental condition that affects how people communicate and behave, have increased roughly fivefold over the past couple of decades.
    Amanda Seitz, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Confusion reigns Wright asserted that the seven-day average of oil flowing out of the Strait of Hormuz had increased to 9 million barrels per day.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
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  • That combination is then folded into the warming character of suede and myrrh.
    Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2026
  • It can be folded for easy transportation and unfolded in a few seconds.
    Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 14 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Unfortunately, since the trial began, the misinformation has only multiplied.
    Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2026
  • As digital channels multiplied, organizations needed people with deep expertise to manage them.
    Sergio Alvarez, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The two studio lots also boast dozens of soundstages; century-old fortresses that would not be easily duplicated.
    Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Likewise, securing and even identifying rights continues to be a problem, which can even extend to subtitles, which might be copyrighted and need to be duplicated, causing unnecessary expenses.
    John Bleasdale, Variety, 11 Aug. 2026

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“Doubled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doubled. Accessed 24 Aug. 2026.

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