double
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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
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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
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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
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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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