double up

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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

Calling him "one of the great portraitists of the 19th and 20th Centuries", it says the show will illustrate how many of his pictures "double up as icons or examples of the human condition".

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2024

“We don’t want to double up on what somebody else is doing already,” Gore said.

From Seattle Times • May 3, 2024

The Dancing Trout pickup rattled past Nick Rael and then passed three older men legging it on the double up the road toward Joe Mondragon’s house.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols