doubling

Example Sentences

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Though forward returns for large-caps after a doubling were “generally weak,” they researchers wrote, smaller-caps showed “more abrupt and severe declines.”

From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026

That means the company anticipates burning $85 billion that year even after almost doubling sales from the prior year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

But he now appears to have shifted course in the hopes that doubling down on the threat of devastating attacks on the country's core infrastructure can prompt Tehran's leadership to come to the table.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was awkwardly dispatched to soothe the financial markets while doubling as a kind of economic war correspondent.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2026

When she had showed Shay her pretty morphos, Tally had mentioned how she always started by doubling her left side—that she had always hated the right side of her face.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld