treble
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She was the last athlete to achieve a sprint treble at the European Championships in 2018, 12 months before completing her rise to the top of an individual global podium.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport seeks treble damages and a court order to bar the alleged anticompetitive practices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport is seeking treble damages, a court order barring the alleged anticompetitive practices and preliminary injunctive relief to prevent Amazon from terminating additional DSPs during the litigation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
But Liman denied Lively’s request for treble and punitive damages, concluding that the procedural mechanism her lawyers used permitted recovery of attorneys fees and costs but not broader financial penalties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
Instruments with ranges that do not fall comfortably into either bass or treble clef may use a C clef or may be transposing instruments.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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Since it first became achievable in 1960, to become champions of England, conquer Europe and win the FA Cup and League Cup in the same campaign, there have been four different trebles.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026
Defeat ended City’s bid to become the first English team to win back-to-back Champions League titles and its pursuit of successive trebles.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2024
He could win any number of trebles with Celtic but nothing will match the tale of how he got to the club in the first place.
From BBC ● May 8, 2023
The group began with basic crochet skills but have now nearly all mastered the chain-stitch, slip-knot, trebles and doubles.
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2023
Ignatius lis-tened to the bloodcurdling little trebles and giggles and gloated in his dark lair.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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A group of apartment owners are calling for the "right to challenge" property service charges after their annual fees have more than trebled since 2018.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
The number of people arriving in Inverclyde from overseas has trebled in recent times, to about 750 per year since 2023.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
More positively, Ahmed assumes $200 million of costs will be removed by FY 2027 as WiseTech cuts a workforce that trebled in size over three years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
Bat prices are said to have trebled following increased demand from countries in South Asia, with some top-end models costing close to £1,000.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026
A doubling or trebling of the potential means that the charge of all the parts is doubled or trebled; hence their combined power of repulsion quadrupled or nonupled.
From Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach
Amsterdam, writes Mr. Mikhail, was “one of the most significant global metropolises” of the 17th century, its population trebling between 1585 and 1622.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
The number of Indians investing through SIPs has soared past 100 million, nearly trebling from 34 million five years ago.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2025
But at the same time, they say they will accelerate the rollout of renewables - trebling offshore wind, for example - and will approve new small “modular” nuclear power stations.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2024
He increased in confidence, doubling and trebling up his jab.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2023
People swarming in, cities doubling and trebling in numbers of inhabitants, while the fiscal guardians groan over the increasing weight of improvements and the need to care for a large new spate of indigents.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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Vocabulary lists containing treble
"The Tempest," Vocabulary from Acts 1 and 2
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