treble
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During their double drop descent, Wolves - who remarkably suffered a treble drop to the bottom tier in the 1980s - burned through four managers and made a series of poor transfers.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
In completing the set of a hundred in a T20, double hundred in an ODI and triple century in a Test, Brook has matched the previously unique treble of West Indies' legend Chris Gayle.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
When Love is Here was released, Liverpool had just completed an unprecedented treble of FA Cup, League Cup and Uefa Cup.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
That season, the club also lifted the FA Cup and the Premier League trophy to become England’s first treble winners since Manchester United in 1999.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
The viola's song is in a language no one knows; it reads from the alto clef, not the treble.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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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
Had you plunged on trebles, you'd have been a winner in five of the last seven campaigns.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 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 female competitors in lumberjack sports has more than trebled in the past 30 years, according to Samantha LaSalle, event director of the Lumberjack World Championships.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
The number of days exceeding 30C in the UK more than trebled between 2015 and 2024 compared with the 1961-1990 average, according to the Met Office.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
During the last decade, the number of these "very hot" days more than trebled compared with the 1961-1990 average, according to the Met Office.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
The rate was at first two per cent, but afterward this was doubled and trebled; and it was levied on every transfer of goods, taxing property over and over again.
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 Cabinet Office has grown the most of any department proportionally, approximately trebling in size since the EU referendum.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025
Disney also announced four new cruise ships - on top of four others it had previously announced - almost trebling the size of its current fleet by 2031.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2024
A trebling of energy bills in 2022 has already led to concerns about the future of many leisure centres.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 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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