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triple

[trip-uhl] / ˈtrɪp əl /
ADJECTIVE
having three of something
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Saturday is expected to be the peak of the heat wave, with temperatures reaching triple digits in parts of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, according to the National Weather Service.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

A majority of nations have called for ambitious, legally binding measures to curb production of plastic, which is expected to triple by 2060.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

His fastball sat around 90 mph, far from the triple digits he would reach with the Yankees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The Institute for Fiscal Studies thinktank says that, had Burnham's tweak been in place since 2011, it would have more than halved the annual £16bn cost of the triple lock, a £9bn saving every year.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

I’m my own Aunt Matilda: when I was a kid I once dreamed of hitting a grand- slam home run and two days later I hit a bases- loaded triple.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

Around 77,000 people live here, but that number already triples during the summer due to incoming holidaymakers.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

Webb 12, Rolling Hills Prep 6: Sophomore Aidan Kaushal finished with two triples, a double and four RBIs while senior Alec Kaushal added three hits to help Webb win the Division 9 championship.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026

This deal triples QXO’s existing market opportunity and expands our total addressable market to over $200 billion.

From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026

Moderna’s first-quarter revenue more than triples to $389 million, leading to a narrower quarterly loss of $1.34 billion.

From Barron's ● May 1, 2026

My heart rate practically triples at just the thought of it.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

Meanwhile dementia deaths have tripled and anxiety- and depression-related health loss has risen sharply since the Covid-19 pandemic.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Their stories come as the number of complaints to the New Homes Ombudsman Service has more than tripled in a year, according to its latest annual report.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

This period includes the full year of 1999, when the Nasdaq-100 doubled and the fund more than tripled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

This is even more alarming in light of reporting this week from The Washington Post that “The number of 9/11 survivors who are receiving aid for cancer has roughly tripled over the last five years.”

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

The Los Alamos lab, recently established under Oppenheimer’s leadership, tripled to 40 kilograms its estimate of the quantity of U-235 needed for a bomb.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Assets under management for the four-year-old ETF totaled $1.9 billion as of Sept. 21, more than tripling from $640 million when MarketWatch spoke to Campbell in February.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

"That's why we are tripling investment over the next five years to halve spills from storm overflows and upgrade the capacity of 1,700 wastewater treatment works," a spokesperson said.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

Still, Gervais remained undeterred, doubling and tripling down on his comedy and delivering a since-viral “I don’t care” monologue during his final hosting stint.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

If something seems miraculous—like doubling or tripling other people’s money in a few months—our intuition tells us the person who did it must be a miracle worker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Adjusting for inflation, these figures reflect a tripling of justice expenditures since 1982.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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