triple
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To put the final touches on the Dodgers’ offensive effort, Kyle Tucker hit a sacrifice fly and Tommy Edman hit a bases-clearing triple for a four-run Dodgers rally in the eighth inning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Angry scenes have erupted outside a court after the family of a woman killed in a triple fatal car crash confronted a garage owner who falsified an MOT just weeks before.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
"We were watching our rent double or triple in the span of a year or two," he says.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
These figures are triple and double the national average for girls and boys, respectively.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
What we had here was worse: a triple calamity fallen on the house of these poor parents.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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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
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
That number nearly triples in the next older cohort of 60 to 64, and jumps to nearly 70% by the ages of 65 to 69.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026
Or, perhaps, it’s simply that triples really is best: a blitzed corn chip base, a sweet corn body and a final, salty flurry of chips on top.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2026
Many of these homes had begun life as single-family dwellings and about half remained such, the others having been divided into doubles or triples.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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Its cloud business recorded more than $24 billion in the quarter, and its net profit tripled to over $112 billion.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
Hospital admissions related to those two conditions have doubled and nearly tripled in recent years.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Pentagon spending on the 15 highest-valued defense startups tripled from 2022 but was under 1% of total contractor dollars last fiscal year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Yousif told AFP demand had tripled, while prices for some recycled plastics increased by up to 60 percent.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
They rode their own forebear or doubled or tripled up on someone else’s.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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Tit-for-tat corruption can be difficult to prove, but more than tripling what you’re making one year into your term suggests that all is not on the level here.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026
Shares need a boost: After more than tripling in 2025, D-Wave has been a laggard this year, falling 8.3%.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
The complex, which also includes six smaller temples, draws 70,000 to 80,000 devotees daily, with crowds tripling on weekends and festivals.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
Chip exports reached a new monthly all-time high of $37.16 billion in May, nearly tripling from a year earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 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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