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threefold

adjective as in three times as many

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As moves crept further into triple digits, Carlsen started checking his scoresheet, wanting to avoid the threefold repetitions of position that would be declared a draw, and instead pursue victory, however long it took.

In the past three decades, the number of tree-planting organizations has skyrocketed, growing nearly threefold in the tropics alone.

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In coming years, the living world will be far outweighed—threefold by 2040, they say, if current trends hold.

Each level of the tower is an exact threefold covering of the level below it.

Since 2001, the cost to sequence a whole human genome has plummeted exponentially, outpacing Moore’s Law threefold.

Between January 31, 1981, and January 31, 1989, the debt rose to $2.697 trillion—a threefold increase, or $1.763 trillion.

Since adding the Special Club category to the wine list, Champagne sales at Mas have increased threefold.

Symbolically speaking, the judge said, the need for an unprecedented sentence for the biggest financial crime ever was threefold.

To this consciousness he assigned a threefold content, power, will and knowledge.

The influence of the seventeenth century salon was of a threefold nature—literary, moral, and social.

It is of a threefold character, as we regard its natural condition and the quality of the air.

As in the case of the recipients of full citizenship, so here we may make a threefold division.

I understood what love in despair may be when it is the threefold passion of the heart, the mind, and the senses.

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On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to threefold, such as: ternary, treble, trinal, trine, and triple.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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