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[duhb-uhl] / ˈdʌb əl /






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Last month, DeepSeek announced a hiring push, seeking to double its workforce across core teams.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

In 2025, data-center M&A hit about $50 billion, more than double the prior year, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

Training has included physical testing, gym work, small-sided games, finishing drills and a mixture of single and double sessions.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

Raines thinks the rare double bloom influenced the spike in reservations.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

Mist rose from the pool below it, and the sunlight that pierced it created a double rainbow.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

Serena won 23 Grand Slams in singles and Venus won seven, leaving their doubles achievements somewhat overlooked.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

But he recorded a hit in each of those plate appearances, including a pair of doubles.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 12, 2026

Serena Williams made a brief and much-discussed return at Wimbledon, exiting singles in the first round, then dropping out from doubles with sister Venus with a knee injury.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

Prince Harry tried his hand at pickleball, playing in a doubles game, watched by competitors, families and supporters and a bank of press cameras.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

William was a doubles tennis champion and later took up golf.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Conversely, analysts surveyed by FactSet have more than doubled their forecasts of 2026 Wegovy pill sales to $2.2 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

Cadiz has doubled its manufacturing capacity for the equipment, and “we expect to double again.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

Goldman’s equity underwriting fees more than doubled, helped significantly by the SpaceX IPO.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

Using iNaturalist, the researchers more than doubled that total, including 62 new records contributed through the platform alone.

From Science Daily Jul. 12, 2026

Talking made his ribs hurt, and Jam watched as he doubled over with a groan.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi

Within the index, energy and tech carried the heaviest second-quarter expectations: Analysts see energy-sector profits more than doubling from a year earlier, while tech earnings are projected to climb 61%.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

It made up for missed teenage rites of passage — the senior prom, the homecoming dance, the debutante ball — by doubling down on sentimentality.

From Salon Jul. 9, 2026

Euclid has already found more than that in a single year, more than doubling the known population of these extremely ancient objects.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

But with the supply of children's homes doubling in the past eight years - as private equity and property investors entered the market - illegal placements might have been expected to stop.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

Technology had been moving so quickly, doubling, tripling, quadrupling in power.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel




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