quadruple
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Their rates start at 260 percent annually, quadruple those of banks, with the payments deducted from the workers' earnings.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
The proposed fracking plan would quadruple production on an aging offshore platform in the Santa Barbara Channel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The 24-year-old, who's gunning for a historic quadruple win at the event this week, told BBC Newsbeat "the glam definitely helps that mentality because sprinting is such a confidence game".
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
In California, a mining company is scrapping with environmentalists over an expansion plan meant to quadruple gold output.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
For example, if the meter of the music feels like "strong-weak-strong-weak," it is in duple meter. "strong-weak-weak-strong-weak-weak" is triple meter, and "strong-weak-weak-weak" is quadruple.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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When financing costs are added, the costs to ratepayers’ quadruples to more than $340 billion over the life of these projects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
Arteta certainly won't be talking about quadruples just yet - but Arsenal fans can dream can't they?
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026
Mr. Biden signed an executive action earlier this month that quadruples tariffs on those cars to 100 percent.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2024
Huang and her team have shown that their approach quadruples the resolution of conventional transmission electron microscopes.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 26, 2024
The flower quadruples in size, and the petals lengthen to catch her.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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By Monday afternoon, it had more than quadrupled in size.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Its stock nearly has quadrupled in the past 12 months, and has gained more than 90% so far this year.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
More than one billion people worldwide are now obese, and childhood obesity has quadrupled since 1990.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Others benefited from holding out: Price tags on certain refund claims have more than quadrupled since the ruling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Yet the U.S. incarceration rate quadrupled, the Finnish rate fell by 60 percent, and the German rate was stable in that period.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan this week boosted their share-price targets despite SpaceX’s first-half capital expenditures quadrupling from a year earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
After almost quadrupling from May 2025, the temptation to book profits had become irresistible.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
Earlier this year, Lewin funneled $3.8 billion to a small arm of the United Nations, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, quadrupling the budget of the agency.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
Seagate has been on a hot streak in 2026, nearly quadrupling against a 17% gain for the Nasdaq 100.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Technology had been moving so quickly, doubling, tripling, quadrupling in power.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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