double
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Their tally of 23 top-flight goals is four more than league leaders Manchester City, and more than double the 11 of reigning champions Arsenal.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
It’s not easy to go through life in a double consciousness, hyperaware that one’s behavior might offend or unease.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
The double survey begins with burial goods, as most tours of Chinese art do.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
It turns out that among the 20 best performers through last week, all but three were down this week, and 11 of the stocks were down double digits.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
“Never had one actually come marching through the Veil before! Wait’ll this story gets around. I’ll have to double my price.”
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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The New York gallery looks back at its own curatorial past in an exhibition that doubles as a compact overview of Chinese art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
British pair Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool advanced in the doubles, beating Russia's Andrey Rublev and Karen Khachanov 6-3 6-4.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Eli Lilly doubles down on its pipeline with new data for weight-loss pill Foundayo and next-generation combo drug EloraTZP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
It’s the same instant-gratification impulse: “I have some money, let me throw it at something and hope it doubles tomorrow.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
Christina doubles back and grabs me, dragging me toward Control-A.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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Shares have more than doubled this year, rising 134% despite the recent rough patch.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Mind you, if Zacharia had arrived on time, she could have doubled her time with us.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
Margin-loan balances on Charles Schwab’s books nearly doubled in the third quarter to about $188 billion, largely because of the tax strategy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
A study examining nearly three decades of medical data found that stroke rates among adults ages 20 to 54 nearly doubled, even as the chances of surviving a stroke improved.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
As soon as she was out of eyeshot of her mother, she ducked behind the butcher’s store and doubled back, heading south behind the row of shops.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
In the eighth, with one out, Will Smith cut out the middle man by doubling into the right-field corner and advancing to third when Milwaukee’s Sal Frelick misplayed the carom off the wall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Among younger adults, the ischemic stroke rate rose from 23.8 cases per 100,000 person-years in 1993-1994 to 47.3 in 2020, nearly doubling over the study period.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
There are about 3,000 data centres currently operating in the US, with that number potentially doubling in the next few years, according to a report by, external Pew Research Center.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
The United States remained Taiwan's biggest export market in September, with overseas shipments more than doubling to $27.5 billion, the second highest value on record.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
He whistled it, loud and shrill, by doubling his tongue behind his front teeth.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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