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Recent Examples of quadrupling
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.
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Sam Stevenson, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
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
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
Lydia Toth, spokesperson for the association of Swiss chocolate manufacturers Chocosuisse, said the quadrupling of cocoa prices over the past two years had significantly increased production costs, squeezing manufacturers' margins, particularly given that retail prices tend to lag.
—Jenni Reid, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2025
Sam Stevenson, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
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
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
Lydia Toth, spokesperson for the association of Swiss chocolate manufacturers Chocosuisse, said the quadrupling of cocoa prices over the past two years had significantly increased production costs, squeezing manufacturers' margins, particularly given that retail prices tend to lag.
—Jenni Reid, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quadrupling
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The seamless integration of old and new feels stealthy, and a touch subversive, a doubling-down on the museum’s approach to time as nonlinear, sinuous and delightfully slippery.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2026
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Kering also aims to refurbish or relocate two-thirds of its Gucci store network, reduce selling space by 20% and outlets by a third to achieve a doubling of its sales density by 2030.—
Elsa Ohlen,
CNBC,
16 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Rain chances increase this afternoon with a focus from midafternoon through a bit beyond sunset expected.—
Ian Livingston,
Washington Post,
25 Apr. 2026
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The Pentagon's budget request this year also asked for more than $70 billion to procure missiles and related equipment, a nearly threefold increase compared to last year.—
James LaPorta,
CBS News,
24 Apr. 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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“Quadrupling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quadrupling. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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