multiply

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It was an intense and disorienting time if you were simply a fan of the music; multiply that by approximately a gigaton if you were anywhere adjacent.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

As wars multiply, Pope Leo’s aides aren’t despairing about the possibilities of diplomacy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

"And you multiply this by what's happening all over Birmingham and there are some very fed-up people, and I can understand people who say they're not going to pay their council tax," she said.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

But the Olympic spirit is hard to find in much of Milan, where rents have soared in the past few years as skyscrapers and top restaurants multiply.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

Since each of these intervals is so many 11times11 in terms of frequencies, when you add intervals, you multiply their frequencies.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones