doubling 1 of 2

doubling

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verb

present participle of double

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for doubling
Noun
  • The value of the credits has increased rapidly as the state’s Public Utilities Commission approved rate increases requested by the companies.
    Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
  • The university’s president was pushing controversial reforms, including a tuition increase.
    Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
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
  • Crosby’s work rate is increasing in recent games, his puck battle win ratio even better than usual.
    Josh Yohe, The Athletic, 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
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
  • For example, in 2024 Churchill and mathematician Howe Choong Yin developed a Magic programming language that used Magic moves to code elementary calculations such as addition, multiplication or division.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2025
  • But that level of precision can come at the cost of large memory footprints (in the hundreds of gigabytes for the largest models) and significant processing resources needed for the complex matrix multiplication used when responding to prompts.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In addition to the performers, the ceremony will honor Warren Zevon with the Musical Influence Award, and key behind-the-scenes figures like Thom Bell, Nicky Hopkins, and Carol Kaye with the Musical Excellence Award.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Career coaching now serves as a strategic investment in a student’s future, in addition to what is provided in university.
    Nia Bowers, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Overall, investigators found that 63 percent of participants had a reduction in steatohepatitis (inflammation of the liver with fat accumulation in the liver) versus 34 percent for the placebo group.
    Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 1 May 2025
  • This accumulation of space debris is creating an increasing problem.
    Daniel B. Oerther, The Conversation, 1 May 2025
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“Doubling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doubling. Accessed 5 May. 2025.

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