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triple

[trip-uhl] / ˈtrɪp əl /
ADJECTIVE
having three of something
Synonyms


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He said the company is on track this year to triple its sales to 20,000 helmets, and he projects similar growth next year.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

County’s coast soared into the 90s on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week, while inland valleys recorded highs hitting the triple digits.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

Treasury raised the size of its planned buyback operation for Treasurys maturing in 10 to 20 years to $6 billion, triple the typical amount, but not enough to send yields lower.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

Without adaptive measures, the figure could nearly triple to 644 billion liters by 2030, Rystad estimates.

From Barron's Sep. 7, 2026

To be triple safe, Jay adds more water, then shovels more dirt.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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

From Slate Sep. 8, 2026

A 3X fund triples the gains and the losses.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

Still, Roberts noted his intensity Saturday, after Díaz gave up the lead with back-to-back triples.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 9, 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

He was also the only player in history to ever hit four triples in one game.

From "Holes" by Louis Sachar

Then he tripled in the sixth and scored on a single by Will Smith.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 12, 2026

The healthcare costs for her family of four tripled in the past two years.

From Salon Sep. 9, 2026

And Knutti says that imbalance has roughly tripled over the past two decades - although the precise increase depends on which years are compared.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

Last year, the analysts said, that segment brought in $6.4 billion in sales, and has more than tripled in size over the past four years.

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

In the fifteen years since George Gey had first grown HeLa, the number of published articles involving cell culture had more than tripled each year.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

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

The government has set an ambitious target of tripling annual copper output to three million metric tonnes by 2031.

From Barron's Aug. 10, 2026

Charter rates for the so-called Very Large Crude Carriers, the most-watched vessels in the oil trade, have surged during the conflict, at times tripling from about $100,000 a day in peacetime.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

Technology had been moving so quickly, doubling, tripling, quadrupling in power.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel




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