double up
Example Sentences
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They also might mistakenly double up on a medication if a mail-order pharmacy switches generic manufacturers and a drug begins coming in a different-colored pill that appears to be a different prescription.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025
As if on cue, stomach cramps made me double up.
From Salon • Dec. 3, 2025
“So if you have two of those, you double up on that.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025
“We don’t want to double up on what somebody else is doing already,” Gore said.
From Seattle Times • May 3, 2024
The tunnel was low-ceilinged: They had had to double up to move through it nearly four years previously; now there was nothing for it but to crawl.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
