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multiply

[muhl-tuh-plahy] / ˈmʌl təˌplaɪ /


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The beach grows brighter as fires multiply from Malvarrosa down toward the port.

From Salon Aug. 11, 2026

Census Bureau, and is expected to multiply fourfold over the next 30 years.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

These changes can cause cells to multiply too quickly and ignore signals that normally tell damaged cells to die before they become dangerous.

From Science Daily Jul. 27, 2026

Boeing's MQ-28 Ghost Bat is an uncrewed aircraft, developed with the Royal Australian Air Force, to fly alongside crewed fighter jets carrying out electronic warfare and surveillance and to help multiply forces.

From Barron's Jul. 24, 2026

There were thousands of them swarming as far back into the underbrush as he could see, and they appeared to swell in size and multiply in number as he spied them.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Nuclear proliferation just multiplies the odds that there’s going to be a mistake or miscalculation that causes nuclear weapons to be used, so the world should definitely be focused on not allowing more nuclear countries.

From Salon Jun. 15, 2026

Datadog, down 25%, and Snowflake, down 41%, are in this group, too, although they’re younger companies trading at high multiplies of earnings.

From Barron's Apr. 16, 2026

As his audience multiplies, Fish’s earliest followers remain enthralled by his seemingly infinite rise.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 17, 2025

Each reuse multiplies the value of the original dataset, ensuring that no discovery is wasted, every contribution can spark the next breakthrough, and researchers gain recognition for their work.

From Science Daily Oct. 13, 2025

The word Prentisstown multiplies along the fields like a crackling fire.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness

The researchers monitored how quickly each bacterial culture multiplied and whether its growth slowed or stopped.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

A Niçoise salad is a meal in itself that can be prepped ahead of time, and multiplied to feed many.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

Rumors have run rampant for weeks over the couple's wedding, with no official confirmation, but clues have multiplied around Madison Square Garden.

From Barron's Jul. 1, 2026

A tax break for investing in small businesses is being multiplied by two, three, four or even more times through the use of trusts.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 29, 2026

As I hop in the shower it occurs to me that a few weeks ago I would have been ecstatic to have multiplied numbers in my head.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

“The attack surface is exploding. Every ungoverned asset and identity is multiplying the blast radius of AI exponentially,” McDermott told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

If one of those changes allows a cell to survive a drug that kills other tumor cells, that resistant cell can continue multiplying.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

Down and down they went, their buffer all but removed, their obsession about results elsewhere in the coming days multiplying as they went.

From BBC Jun. 25, 2026

But the factors keeping budget travelers away are multiplying.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

He oscillated hourly between anguish and exhilaration, multiplying fantastically the grandeur of his victories and exaggerating tragically the seriousness of his defeats.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller




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