double
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England captain Harry Kane is odds-on to win, after a club-record 61 goals in 51 games for German double winners Bayern Munich last season.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Kuramoto Ice is of the country's few international exporters, and has seen total sales more than double since exports began in 2019.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
This is the double edge of attaching prices to things that are valuable precisely because they are not transactions.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
She recently turned down an opportunity at another company that would have offered her roughly double the pay when she learned the person who held it previously left due to burnout.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
He fetches at least double the number of sticks we need, and chews up half of them.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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Rarely has a women's doubles first-round match headlined the US Open night session - but the Williams sisters are like no other pairing.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Certainly it did in doubles, where they teamed up to win three Olympic gold medals and 14 major titles, including two at the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
The London Stock Exchange is planning to allow traders to buy and sell tokenized stocks in its 24-hour trading venue, as the bourse doubles down on its push into digital assets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
The acquisition more than doubles ONEOK’s Midland Basin processing capacity to about 2.3 billion cubic feet a day, including plants that are currently being built.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Noah croaks out and then doubles over again.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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Between 2010 and 2026, rent prices have doubled in the neighborhood, and there seems to be no slowing down.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
Taylor, who joined the team from Austin in mid-July — a week before Furuhashi came over from England’s Birmingham City — doubled the lead in the 33rd minute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
By April 2025, the typical search scope had almost doubled to around 500 networks.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Open, where the number of credentialed content creators has doubled from last year.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
At this point I'm looking at all the money I'm going to make this shift, doubled.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
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But from what I could tell on Thursday, the member's microphones were live all night, with a backing track doubling their vocals at crucial moments.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
He spoke of an "episode in which numerous actors and interests converge", doubling down on his assertion that hoaxes and rumours spread by social media had sparked the crisis.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
But investors who want to diversify their portfolios by adding international-stock funds may unwittingly be doubling down on U.S. stocks instead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
U.S. oil major Chevron laid out plans to invest more than $7 billion in Venezuela over the next five years, doubling its production in the country’s oil fields following a push from the Trump administration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
But they are no longer priestesses; they are now ornamental devices doubling as supporting columns.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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