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multiply

[muhl-tuh-plahy] / ˈmʌl təˌplaɪ /


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The beach grows brighter as fires multiply from Malvarrosa down toward the port.

From Salon Aug. 11, 2026

Census Bureau, and is expected to multiply fourfold over the next 30 years.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

Boeing's MQ-28 Ghost Bat is an uncrewed aircraft, developed with the Royal Australian Air Force, to fly alongside crewed fighter jets carrying out electronic warfare and surveillance and to help multiply forces.

From Barron's Jul. 24, 2026

When the gene is missing, cancer cells multiply rapidly and become resistant to many targeted therapies.

From Science Daily Jul. 4, 2026

She could multiply fractions, turn a cartwheel, and recite entire stanzas of “The Wreck of the Hesperus,” a marvelous poem about a shipwreck by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

The U.S. skilled workforce is aging fast, while demand for workers in the trades multiplies quickly because of surging data center demand and investment in advanced manufacturing.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 6, 2026

Datadog, down 25%, and Snowflake, down 41%, are in this group, too, although they’re younger companies trading at high multiplies of earnings.

From Barron's Apr. 16, 2026

Each reuse multiplies the value of the original dataset, ensuring that no discovery is wasted, every contribution can spark the next breakthrough, and researchers gain recognition for their work.

From Science Daily Oct. 13, 2025

Of all of Redford’s achievements, the institute and the festival are the most wide-ranging and everlasting, two shining, defiant examples of how quickly goodness multiplies.

From Salon Sep. 21, 2025

But a computer mouse multiplies as either mice or mouses.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

Mr. Walz launched a campaign for an unheard-of third term in September, before abandoning it four months later as the state’s fraud scandals multiplied.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

That model multiplied the company’s valuation 14 times on Cook’s watch, to nearly $5 trillion from roughly $350 billion the day he took over for Steve Jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

The researchers monitored how quickly each bacterial culture multiplied and whether its growth slowed or stopped.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

Rumors have been rampant for weeks over the couple's wedding, with no official confirmation, but clues have multiplied around Madison Square Garden.

From Barron's Jul. 2, 2026

That the velocity of a falling body equals the acceleration due to gravity multiplied by the time of the fall in seconds.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Perhaps that is why eclipse chasers keep multiplying.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

“The attack surface is exploding. Every ungoverned asset and identity is multiplying the blast radius of AI exponentially,” McDermott told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

Sandbanks are multiplying, depths fall to barely one meter in places, and the river's few remaining fishermen swelter in the heat.

From Barron's Jun. 27, 2026

Down and down they went, their buffer all but removed, their obsession about results elsewhere in the coming days multiplying as they went.

From BBC Jun. 25, 2026

She might be multiplying fractions in her head while her brain quietly asked, “Did you cut the tag out of Chicken’s shirt?”

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn




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