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treble

[treb-uhl] / ˈtrɛb əl /


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Mothers Matter said it had seen demand "double, if not treble" during the strike while Unite said its workers were fighting "to be paid at the appropriate level for their skills and experience".

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport is seeking treble damages, a court order barring the alleged anticompetitive practices and preliminary injunctive relief to prevent Amazon from terminating additional DSPs during the litigation.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport seeks treble damages and a court order to bar the alleged anticompetitive practices.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

Immanuel Feyi-Waboso's acrobatic finish down the left wing and Pollock's treble, all celebrated in style, brought loud cheers from the Hill Dickinson Stadium's 50,209-strong crowd after the break.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

Transpose the notes up a perfect fifth and write the new part in treble clef.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

Midfielder Ferguson and winger McCann helped Rangers win two domestic trebles, with the former winning five league titles and 15 trophies over two spells.

From BBC Feb. 24, 2025

Yet none of those trebles came quicker than the 13 minutes and 54 seconds Omar Marmoush took to get his first City hat-trick in the 4-0 win over Newcastle.

From BBC Feb. 15, 2025

If trebles are for show and doubles for dough, he has both bases covered.

From BBC Jan. 4, 2025

Defeat ended City’s bid to become the first English team to win back-to-back Champions League titles and its pursuit of successive trebles.

From Seattle Times Apr. 17, 2024

Ignatius lis-tened to the bloodcurdling little trebles and giggles and gloated in his dark lair.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

During the last decade, the number of these "very hot" days more than trebled compared with the 1961-1990 average, according to the Met Office.

From BBC May 22, 2026

In the final week of February, as Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, BBC Russian's audience more than trebled in size, reaching 10 million people.

From BBC Mar. 27, 2026

More positively, Ahmed assumes $200 million of costs will be removed by FY 2027 as WiseTech cuts a workforce that trebled in size over three years.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 26, 2026

Global warming, caused by humanity's emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases, has already trebled the number of days of extreme heat in oceans globally, according to research published earlier this year.

From BBC Oct. 17, 2025

It is shown in the article Prakrit that these pleonastic suffixes can be doubled, or even trebled, and in this way we have a new series of tadbhava forms.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various

Amsterdam, writes Mr. Mikhail, was “one of the most significant global metropolises” of the 17th century, its population trebling between 1585 and 1622.

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

The number of Indians investing through SIPs has soared past 100 million, nearly trebling from 34 million five years ago.

From BBC Mar. 5, 2025

In July 2022, there were 21,246 outdoor fires - nearly trebling the previous July's figure.

From BBC Sep. 28, 2023

A trebling of energy bills in 2022 has already led to concerns about the future of many leisure centres.

From BBC Jan. 27, 2023

People swarming in, cities doubling and trebling in numbers of inhabitants, while the fiscal guardians groan over the increasing weight of improvements and the need to care for a large new spate of indigents.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck




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