triple
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The mercury could hit triple digits across much of the Southland Tuesday through Monday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Angry scenes have erupted outside a court after the family of a woman killed in a triple fatal car crash confronted a garage owner who falsified an MOT just weeks before.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Lockheed and RTX, which makes the Patriot launcher system, have pledged to meet White House demands to triple or quadruple their output of some high-tech missiles over the coming years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
"We were watching our rent double or triple in the span of a year or two," he says.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
He hit a triple, a ground-out, and two doubles.
From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers
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That doesn’t sound like a staggering difference, but with thousands of batted balls over the years, that’s a lot of outs turning into doubles, triples and home runs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
UBS maintains its buy rating and more than triples its price target to $1,625.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
Moderna’s first-quarter revenue more than triples to $389 million, leading to a narrower quarterly loss of $1.34 billion.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
That number nearly triples in the next older cohort of 60 to 64, and jumps to nearly 70% by the ages of 65 to 69.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026
He was also the only player in history to ever hit four triples in one game.
From "Holes" by Louis Sachar
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Saudi exports via the Red Sea port of Yanbu approximately tripled to a record high of around four million barrels a day in the spring, according to analysts, before falling back slightly.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Hospital admissions related to those two conditions have doubled and nearly tripled in recent years.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Micron’s stock has roughly tripled this year, SK Hynix has risen nearly as much, and Samsung has about doubled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Yousif told AFP demand had tripled, while prices for some recycled plastics increased by up to 60 percent.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Between 1920 and 1940, the population of southern California nearly tripled, as about 2 million people arrived from across the United States.
From "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser
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Tit-for-tat corruption can be difficult to prove, but more than tripling what you’re making one year into your term suggests that all is not on the level here.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026
The president's crypto activities are the main reason for the near tripling of his personal fortune, which rose from $2.3 billion to $6.5 billion between 2024 and 2026, according to Forbes.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
The complex, which also includes six smaller temples, draws 70,000 to 80,000 devotees daily, with crowds tripling on weekends and festivals.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
Venture capital funding for defense technology soared in 2025, with round values tripling from 2020 to reach $29 billion, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Adjusting for inflation, these figures reflect a tripling of justice expenditures since 1982.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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