doubling 1 of 2

present participle of double

doubling

2 of 2

noun

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for doubling
Verb
  • According to the study, increasing access to liquor stores by 10% resulted in a 37% increase in violent crime.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The team, however, is not increasing season-ticket prices in the upper level, per the spokesperson.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 25 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The argument then escalated, and Forty hit him in the face with a beer bottle, pulled out a folding knife, and then charged at him.
    Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 12 Apr. 2025
  • The audience of seventy-five people—packed closely into white folding chairs at a community center just outside Boston—had come to learn how to spot undercover immigration agents.
    Julia Angwin, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • One reported a 60% increase in sales within four months, while another saved 30-hours per week on decision-making processes, according to Medone.
    Sonia Osorio, Miami Herald, 1 July 2025
  • The new pictures represent a significant increase in detail that is primarily owed to Biomass’s main instrument: the P-band synthetic aperture radar.
    Emma R. Hasson, Scientific American, 1 July 2025
Verb
  • The reciprocal rates, which aren’t exactly reciprocal, were calculated by dividing a country’s trade deficit with the US by its exports to the country and multiplying by 1/2.
    Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The best employees will be those who master this skill, significantly multiplying their productivity.
    Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • From this view, prime numbers are the basic building blocks for constructing any positive whole number using multiplication – akin to atoms combining to make molecules in chemistry.
    Jeremiah Bartz, The Conversation, 30 May 2025
  • The 1920s roared for black banks too, but these machines were never able to perform the magic of banking that is the multiplication of capital through fractional reserve lending.
    Sonari Glinton, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Auckland City earned $3.58m USD for their participation in the tournament, in addition to a $1m bonus from FIFA for the draw against Boca.
    Adam Crafton, New York Times, 27 June 2025
  • In addition to Akbar Sheikh, other interviewees include internet business entrepreneurs such as Tai Lopez, Russell Brunson, Mike Winnet, Dan Henry, as well as motivational online life-style and mental health experts such as Gretchen Rubin, Lauren Tickner, Alex Partridge and Robert Waldinger.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • The annual Ten Thousand Commandments report has, since 1993, tracked the inexorable accumulation of federal regulation.
    Clyde Wayne Crews Jr, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • The United States would be, to put it mildly, naïve to believe that the accumulation of intelligence and modern warfare knowledge by North Korea, China and Iran presents no threat to the United States.
    Laura Thornton, Twin Cities, 27 June 2025
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“Doubling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doubling. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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