tripling

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Recent Examples of tripling 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tripling
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • For some animals, increases in carbs could cause acidosis and be fatal.
    Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 27 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • 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

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“Tripling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tripling. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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