double up

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They also might mistakenly double up on a medication if a mail-order pharmacy switches generic manufacturers and a drug begins coming in a different-colored pill that appears to be a different prescription.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

As if on cue, stomach cramps made me double up.

From Salon • Dec. 3, 2025

Calling him "one of the great portraitists of the 19th and 20th Centuries", it says the show will illustrate how many of his pictures "double up as icons or examples of the human condition".

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2024

Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz didn’t have a chance to double up the speedy Ohtani, but he fired a throw toward first base anyway.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2024

The tunnel was low-ceilinged: They had had to double up to move through it nearly four years previously; now there was nothing for it but to crawl.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling