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to make twice as great or as many
we doubled our investment in six months
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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 doubling
Big Think, 9 Apr. 2026
An article in a British pediatric journal earlier this year describes how the tightening of sanctions on Cuba since 2017 has led to more than a doubling of infant mortality over the last decade.
—Mark Weisbrot, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026
Some were axed immediately; others were rewritten and re-recorded, keeping Oli’s voice pure, stripped of the vocal doubling that had been his signature on previous records.
—Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2026
Semafor today announced an expansion of Semafor Gulf, the latest step in the company’s sweeping 2026 editorial expansion and a doubling down on its investment in one of the world’s most consequential economic and geopolitical regions.
—Rachel Keidan, semafor.com, 2 Apr. 2026
The big advance is a doubling of the MU-MIMO streams, to 16.
—Iyaz Akhtar, PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 2026
Overall, a doubling of property valuation should not automatically result in a doubling of property taxes, but instead, mill levy rates should be adjusted to increase property taxes by a reasonable amount.
—Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2026
And in fact, doubles and doubling are Hamnet’s great themes.
—Rhoda Feng, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2026
Decline in corporate disclosures on diversity, climate At the same time of a doubling down on worker efforts, there have been broad declines in the overall rate of corporate disclosure.
—Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC, 17 Mar. 2026
Evens Sanon, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026
The conflict in Iran has caused oil prices in Haiti to surge, disrupting critical supply chains, doubling transportation costs and forcing millions of undernourished people to cut back on already scarce meals.
—ABC News, 11 Apr. 2026
Kelly’s proposal calls for doubling that exemption to the first $150,000.
—Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2026
European bank stocks enjoyed a stellar 2025, notching their best year since 1997, with the valuations of some lenders more than doubling.
—Joseph Wilkins, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2026
And the team recently overhauled its plans, almost doubling the stadium’s capacity and add a partial canopy.
—Sacbee.com, 9 Apr. 2026
The analysis by the Deportation Data Project at UC Berkeley found that ICE arrests more than quadrupled in that period, with transfers from jails and prisons roughly doubling.
—Daniella Silva, NBC news, 8 Apr. 2026
In the triple jump, Texas' Kelsey Daniel followed with a 52 foot, 10 inch jump, doubling his win count after a victory in the long jump Friday.
—Cory Mull, Austin American Statesman, 5 Apr. 2026
Two years after purchasing the struggling college-area hospital, UC San Diego Health is more than doubling its investment in East Campus Medical Center.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
Noun
After 100 doubling times, its volume has increased by a factor of something like ~10⁹⁰.
—Big Think, 9 Apr. 2026
An article in a British pediatric journal earlier this year describes how the tightening of sanctions on Cuba since 2017 has led to more than a doubling of infant mortality over the last decade.
—Mark Weisbrot, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026
Some were axed immediately; others were rewritten and re-recorded, keeping Oli’s voice pure, stripped of the vocal doubling that had been his signature on previous records.
—Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2026
Semafor today announced an expansion of Semafor Gulf, the latest step in the company’s sweeping 2026 editorial expansion and a doubling down on its investment in one of the world’s most consequential economic and geopolitical regions.
—Rachel Keidan, semafor.com, 2 Apr. 2026
The big advance is a doubling of the MU-MIMO streams, to 16.
—Iyaz Akhtar, PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 2026
Overall, a doubling of property valuation should not automatically result in a doubling of property taxes, but instead, mill levy rates should be adjusted to increase property taxes by a reasonable amount.
—Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2026
And in fact, doubles and doubling are Hamnet’s great themes.
—Rhoda Feng, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2026
Decline in corporate disclosures on diversity, climate At the same time of a doubling down on worker efforts, there have been broad declines in the overall rate of corporate disclosure.
—Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC, 17 Mar. 2026
Verb
The conflict in Iran has caused oil prices in Haiti to surge, disrupting critical supply chains, doubling transportation costs and forcing millions of undernourished people to cut back on already scarce meals.
—Evens Sanon, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026
The conflict in Iran has caused oil prices in Haiti to surge, disrupting critical supply chains, doubling transportation costs and forcing millions of undernourished people to cut back on already scarce meals.
—ABC News, 11 Apr. 2026
Kelly’s proposal calls for doubling that exemption to the first $150,000.
—Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2026
European bank stocks enjoyed a stellar 2025, notching their best year since 1997, with the valuations of some lenders more than doubling.
—Joseph Wilkins, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2026
And the team recently overhauled its plans, almost doubling the stadium’s capacity and add a partial canopy.
—Sacbee.com, 9 Apr. 2026
The analysis by the Deportation Data Project at UC Berkeley found that ICE arrests more than quadrupled in that period, with transfers from jails and prisons roughly doubling.
—Daniella Silva, NBC news, 8 Apr. 2026
In the triple jump, Texas' Kelsey Daniel followed with a 52 foot, 10 inch jump, doubling his win count after a victory in the long jump Friday.
—Cory Mull, Austin American Statesman, 5 Apr. 2026
Two years after purchasing the struggling college-area hospital, UC San Diego Health is more than doubling its investment in East Campus Medical Center.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for doubling
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At least three men were taken into custody by federal agents outside a San Bernardino County Superior Court on Thursday in what advocates are calling an alarming increase of immigration enforcement actions outside courthouses in the region.—
Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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Lawmakers agreed to lower, but not eliminate, the income tax rate while limiting increases on property tax assessments.—
Adam Beam,
AJC.com,
10 Apr. 2026
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South Korea is increasing generation at its nuclear plants and speeding up maintenance at five offline reactors, with restarts planned in May.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 Apr. 2026
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Bolivia is low on cash after making more than $500 million in debt payments last month, increasing the urgency of reaching a deal with the International Monetary Fund.—
Sergio Mendoza,
Bloomberg,
16 Apr. 2026
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Prosecutors said police found a folding blade knife, brass knuckles, a hammer and a bowing knife in the home, as well as a large bottle of bleach.—
Sara Tenenbaum,
CBS News,
10 Apr. 2026
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In small spaces, pair it with nesting tables and folding chairs.—
Jessica Bennett,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Apr. 2026
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The study found a quadrupling in the number of megacities—urban areas with 10 million or more inhabitants—from eight in 1975 to 33 in 2025, with 19 of those in Asia.—
Sam Stevenson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Nov. 2025
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Vendor financing — along with the doubling, tripling or quadrupling of companies’ valuations — is one of the unflattering echoes some analysts see in comparing today’s AI frenzy with the late-90s dot-com bubble.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
7 Oct. 2025
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College degrees kept multiplying.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
10 Apr. 2026
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The Kremlin’s economic woes are multiplying with its years-long war, which has added to government debt and dampened business investment.—
Hanna Ziady,
CNN Money,
27 Mar. 2026
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The impetus for the monthly spending limit was a tripling of insulin’s price from 2002 to 2013, an editorial in JAMA Internal Medicine reminds us.—
Theresa Gaffney,
STAT,
7 Apr. 2026
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In the first half of the 2020s South Africa grew roughly 20,000 tons of rooibos tea every year, a tripling of production since the 1990s.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
25 Mar. 2026
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The findings, published in a new study in the journal Nature Communications, suggest there’s a hard limit to duplicating mammals.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
26 Mar. 2026
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From there, a user named Vega turned it into a TikTok dance video that exploded — people duplicating themselves on screen, one version performing, the other dancing behind them.—
Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Mar. 2026
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In addition to a requirement for a warrant to access Americans' data, critics also want greater protections on how the FBI or other agencies can search communications and how that is reported to the public.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
15 Apr. 2026
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In the aftermath of the Google fiasco, Cukor turns to Palantir (in addition to Microsoft and Amazon) to make Maven a reality.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2026
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“Doubling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doubling. Accessed 17 Apr. 2026.
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