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as in increasing
to make twice as great or as many
we doubled our investment in six months
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as in folding
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
Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 24 Oct. 2025
Slicing the data another way shows a doubling of the subscription cancellation rate, jumping from 4 percent in July and August to 8 percent in September for Disney+, and 5 percent in July and August to 10 percent in September for Hulu.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Oct. 2025
Shares of jumped nearly 9 percent in premarket trading following the announcement, meaning a doubling in price since the start of the year.
—Senior Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
The doubling of cancelation rates stood out in a streaming landscape where churn rates typically remain somewhat consistent.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
Diamond rings of the Serti Sculpté series made for an ideal choice for modern engagements while the Les Perles line cast a contemporary light on pearl necklaces via asymmetries and gold closing doubling as an ornamental element.
—Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 10 Oct. 2025
One common trend in recent weeks has been the doubling up on Grealish by opponents.
—Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
The big advance is a doubling of the MU-MIMO streams, to 16.
—Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025
The result was a kind of doubling of the text.
—Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
Ritika Gupta, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
And by effectively doubling Apple Silicon’s AI hardware, adding 10 more Tensor-like blocks to the 10-core GPU—and the ability to mix, match, and combine resources across the GPU and Neural Engine—Apple just bet big on AI in Macs.
—PC Magazine, 18 Oct. 2025
Cupertino saw the highest jump in its homelessness count in Santa Clara County, more than doubling since 2023, according to the latest homelessness count by Santa Clara County.
—Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
The city also saw about 1,250 violent crime incidents per 50,000 people last year, more than doubling Nashville’s average and quadrupling the state average, according to WSMV.
—Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
As of Tuesday, there were 30 container ships waiting in the queue, more than doubling from the 13 reported by the port Thursday.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 15 Oct. 2025
Three of his touches went for 10-plus yards, doubling his season total to six.
—Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2025
However, at least 23 countries in sub-Saharan Africa are in debt distress or at high risk of distress, the World Bank’s recent assessment noted, with public debt in nominal terms and as a share of GDP nearly doubling over the last decade.
—Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2025
There the brand has the objective of doubling its business.
—Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
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An immediate switch back to the Red Sea would shorten supply chains dramatically, causing a temporary doubling of arrivals from Asia to Europe for two weeks.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 24 Oct. 2025
Slicing the data another way shows a doubling of the subscription cancellation rate, jumping from 4 percent in July and August to 8 percent in September for Disney+, and 5 percent in July and August to 10 percent in September for Hulu.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Oct. 2025
Shares of jumped nearly 9 percent in premarket trading following the announcement, meaning a doubling in price since the start of the year.
—Senior Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
The doubling of cancelation rates stood out in a streaming landscape where churn rates typically remain somewhat consistent.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
Diamond rings of the Serti Sculpté series made for an ideal choice for modern engagements while the Les Perles line cast a contemporary light on pearl necklaces via asymmetries and gold closing doubling as an ornamental element.
—Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 10 Oct. 2025
One common trend in recent weeks has been the doubling up on Grealish by opponents.
—Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
The big advance is a doubling of the MU-MIMO streams, to 16.
—Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025
The result was a kind of doubling of the text.
—Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
This summer, Newsom increased the total film and TV tax credit to $750 million in California, nearly doubling the previous cap, in a bid to encourage more productions to film in Los Angeles.
—Ritika Gupta, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
And by effectively doubling Apple Silicon’s AI hardware, adding 10 more Tensor-like blocks to the 10-core GPU—and the ability to mix, match, and combine resources across the GPU and Neural Engine—Apple just bet big on AI in Macs.
—PC Magazine, 18 Oct. 2025
Cupertino saw the highest jump in its homelessness count in Santa Clara County, more than doubling since 2023, according to the latest homelessness count by Santa Clara County.
—Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
The city also saw about 1,250 violent crime incidents per 50,000 people last year, more than doubling Nashville’s average and quadrupling the state average, according to WSMV.
—Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
As of Tuesday, there were 30 container ships waiting in the queue, more than doubling from the 13 reported by the port Thursday.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 15 Oct. 2025
Three of his touches went for 10-plus yards, doubling his season total to six.
—Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2025
However, at least 23 countries in sub-Saharan Africa are in debt distress or at high risk of distress, the World Bank’s recent assessment noted, with public debt in nominal terms and as a share of GDP nearly doubling over the last decade.
—Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2025
There the brand has the objective of doubling its business.
—Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for doubling
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The organization’s Green Heart Project, which studies the impact of better air quality on heart disease through urban greening, has found that increasing the number of trees and shrubs in an area can create lower levels of a blood marker associated with inflammation.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
26 Oct. 2025
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Coffee prices have been increasing sharply since the start of this year.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
25 Oct. 2025
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Officers recovered a folding knife near the outbound light rail platform, the affidavit said.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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Built using a folding pattern called Miura-Ori, the robot can be swallowed as a compact object.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Oct. 2025
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For some animals, increases in carbs could cause acidosis and be fatal.—
Craig Shoup,
Nashville Tennessean,
27 Oct. 2025
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Managing this amount of data is extremely difficult and requires massive amounts of computing power, but the information is becoming more accurate every day as the number of sightings increase.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Oct. 2025
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Earlier this year, Unilever’s incoming CEO announced that the company would spend 50 percent of its media budget with creators, while multiplying the number of creators that the company works with by 20.—
Taylor Lorenz,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Oct. 2025
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Budgets are swelling, pilots are multiplying and the hype machine rolls on.—
Adam Mills,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 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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Since tariffs rates have been largely stable for decades, after decades of gradual decline, that rate of increase – the quadrupling – is almost certainly unprecedented since the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act so often cited as a contributing factor to the Great Depression.—
Ken Roberts,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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Bidirectional edges connected the robots to each other, because each robot had to know what other robots were doing at each time step to avoid collisions or duplicating tasks.—
Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
25 Sep. 2025
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The remaining one-third involves SG&A costs, split between restructuring sales and marketing operations and duplicating corporate functions such as finance, HR, and legal.—
Joe Cornell,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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The Democrat has touted his accomplishments as a redo of zoning laws to allow for more building, reduced violent crime, and a tripling of affordable housing.—
Staff,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
9 Oct. 2025
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The relative change would be greater, going from a doubling of density during such an event to a potential tripling.—
Andrew Freedman,
CNN Money,
14 Aug. 2025
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The study found that the incorrect, older models led to a significant bias in criticality calculations, causing an artificial overestimation of the reactor’s effective neutron multiplication factor (keff).—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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That’s politics by multiplication, not division.—
Marie Alvarado Gil,
Oc Register,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Doubling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doubling. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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