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multiply

[muhl-tuh-plahy] / ˈmʌl təˌplaɪ /


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Cells need to multiply enough to replace what was lost, but that growth must eventually stop.

From Science Daily Sep. 18, 2026

Meanwhile, just seconds after it launched, $LAPTOP earned enough trading volume to see its valuation multiply exponentially, shooting up from $37 to over $200.

From Slate Sep. 9, 2026

He described them as "very resilient" and said their short breeding cycle meant populations could multiply quickly in warm conditions.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

Tripling volumes, hitting annual release dates like clockwork, minimizing risky capital investments and returning more than $1 trillion to shareholders through dividends and buybacks helped Cook multiply Apple’s valuation 13 times during his tenure.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

"Was she lying, then," Miss Honey said, "when she told me that nobody taught her to multiply or to read? Did either of you teach her?"

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

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

JON LEVY: A glue player is the team member who multiplies everyone else’s results, helping the team win.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 12, 2025

Raising a number to the nth power multiplies its angle by n.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

In Cibolo, a city north of San Antonio with a population of 36,000, an authority grant multiplied the number of Flock cameras from 11 to 52.

From Salon Sep. 6, 2026

For an ice cream truck visiting a summer camp, the TAM is all the kids at the camp multiplied by how much ice cream each kid would buy that summer.

From Slate Sep. 1, 2026

From that game on, TV games featuring high school football multiplied and schools began to travel around the country for marquee matchups.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 23, 2026

Mr. Walz launched a campaign for an unheard-of third term in September, before abandoning it four months later as the state’s fraud scandals multiplied.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

However, we saw that anything multiplied by zero equals zero!

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

As of June, Lumen had put down approximately 19 million “fiber miles,” which is calculated by multiplying the length of the route by the number of fibers inside each cable.

From MarketWatch Sep. 19, 2026

Alongside rapidly multiplying cancer cells are immune cells, newly formed blood vessels and a particularly concerning group of cancer cells that remain unusually quiet.

From Science Daily Sep. 6, 2026

Swonk argued that the "hawks" at the Fed -- those policymakers who consider it appropriate to raise interest rates to combat high prices -- were multiplying.

From Barron's Jul. 29, 2026

“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

We work on multiplying and adding long expressions.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari




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