whammy
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Production workers in Los Angeles have felt a double whammy as other states and countries have offered generous tax subsidies that have pulled productions from L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
It is the ultimate double whammy for a chancellor facing his first Budget.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
In short, the widowed taxpayer often faces a double whammy: Income often falls while tax rates increase.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Japan, which imports most of its energy, is facing a double whammy of the higher oil prices that affect everyone and even higher prices in yen terms as the currency plumbed new depths.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Doug got the triple whammy: glasses, braces, pimples.
From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers
Conditioning skates, wind sprints, whammies, two-and-a-halfs, bag skates — many names for the basic, infamous drill where one goes up and down the ice at high speed.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2022
The list begins with two whammies: no poverty and zero hunger.
From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2019
As deeply serious as it is deeply funny, “Get Out” is perfectly timed to jolt audiences out of their midwinter blahs, delivering classic genre whammies with a generous serving of cultural critique.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2017
There are other whammies probably that I haven’t mentioned.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 21, 2015
“Actually, as many whammies as you could come up with.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2012
