treble
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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
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
Immanuel Feyi-Waboso's acrobatic finish down the left wing and Pollock's treble, all celebrated in style, brought loud cheers from the Hill Dickinson Stadium's 50,209-strong crowd after the break.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 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
Figure 1.11: Middle C is above the bass clef and below the treble clef; so together these two clefs cover much of the range of most voices and 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
Between 2016 and 2019, he delivered seven domestic trophies in a row, including an unbeaten debut domestic campaign and consecutive trebles.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2023
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
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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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
What is more, the bill for his monthly payments then almost trebled to £981 a month, after it appeared he had now underpaid for the younger child still entitled to support.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 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
In the final week of February, as Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, BBC Russian's audience more than trebled in size, reaching 10 million people.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
The population of the city and suburbs, in 1810, amounted to 24,552; having been trebled in seven years, under the administration of its new government.
From Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by B. M. Norman
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
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
The Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts that the tax will raise about £760m in 2024-25, so trebling the rate is estimated to raise an extra £1.5bn.
From BBC ● May 29, 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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