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 Patti Kanegae, a former resident of Largo, said her bill to insure her older home there doubled over four years, from $2,000 to $4,000, despite improvements to protect it against damaging hurricane winds. — Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2026 Other parents have told me their children’s bus ride times have doubled and many are spending more than an hour each way on the bus. — Naperville Sun, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2026 That would mean the first episode grew by 61 percent from its on-air total, and episode two more than doubled. — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2026 The price more than doubled during the feverish close of the auction presented by Fanatics Collect. — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026 Gasoline prices have gone up about 40 percent over the past 12 months, whereas diesel prices have nearly doubled over that time, according to AAA. — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 24 Sep. 2026 Amid rising costs and living expenses, visits to Delta State University’s food pantry, the Statesman’s Shelf, more than doubled in recent years from 672 visits in 2023-24 to 1,672 in 2025-26. — ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026 If software changes doubled, would security reviews, testing, release approvals or operational support need to double too? — Abhi Shimpi, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026 Rapes in the park have doubled this year, rising to four from two last year. — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for doubled
Verb
  • Tensions have surged in the West Bank, and extremist Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians have increased exponentially, emboldened by right-wing, ultra-nationalist politicians in Israel's government.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Now, with growing bipartisan opposition to the rapid buildout of data centers suggest that even ordinary residents of communities and voters have increased power to help pace the frontier from the bottom up.
    — Bhaskar Chakravorti, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Since the last time the area had been grazed, a year earlier, the grasses had grown to chest height and then folded under their own weight.
    — Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026
  • His knees folded into his chest, the crown of his head burrowing down.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Even a tiny error rate, multiplied by enough volume, is a constant stream of failures.
    — Shivansh Inamdar, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Jurors then multiplied that number by the total number of residential and commercial subscribers.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 8 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Live enterprise data arrives fragmented, outdated, duplicated and protected by different permissions.
    — Taras Tymoshchuk, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2026
  • That Robert Zemeckis film will never be duplicated or topped, but there’s a difference between these films worth teasing out.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026

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“Doubled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doubled. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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