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doubly

[duhb-lee] / ˈdʌb li /
ADVERB
twofold
Synonyms
STRONG
WEAK
increased redoubled


Example Sentences

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Wherever they sit in the stack, they will be hard to tell apart from eventual losers, and doubly hard to buy before everyone else notices.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

Ali was doubly surprised because the mailers went out to voters just a few weeks after Waters attended an unveiling ceremony for the new Compton High School campus.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

"We were able to isolate an intermediate structure from our ruthenium complex formation reaction and characterize this with single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Surprisingly, we found the structure to be doubly ring-slipped," says Takebayashi.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

Baseball is fleeting, a bit of good-hearted nationalism doubly so.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2026

This was doubly puzzling, as I did not think he read Arabic; nor, to my knowledge, did he have borrowing privileges at the Williams College Library.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt




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