treble
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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
Sonia Bompastor led Chelsea to an unbeaten domestic treble in her first season in charge, but it did not go to plan in 2025-26 as their six-year stranglehold on the WSL ended.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Unison senior vice president Debbie Rowden said the plans would drive away international staff despite shortages in critical roles, including in the care sector, where the qualification period would treble.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Now, joining forces with her British team-mates to retain their relay title, the treble is hers.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
How about Grizzly Bears Don’t Fly Airplanes for the lines of the bass clef, or Empty Garbage Before Dad Flips or Elephants Get Big Dirty Feet for the lines of the treble clef?
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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The Azzurri have finished fourth in this year's table after failing to achieve two unique trebles at the Principality Stadium.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 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
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 figure had more than trebled from 76 deaths the previous year.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Between 2015 and 2024, the number of days exceeding 30C in the UK more than trebled compared with the 1961-1990 average, the Met Office says.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 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
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
Towards him rushes the greater part of the garrison, their first fright trebled.
From Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo by Herbert Strang
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
As the BBC showed earlier this year, there was indeed a significant increase over time, with public funding trebling in real terms, to pay for repairs to Buckingham Palace.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2025
The increase in the number of “very hot days” of 30C or more has been even more dramatic, trebling over the last few decades.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 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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"The Tempest," Vocabulary from Acts 1 and 2
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Part 2 Vocabulary (Unit 3)
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