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
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
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
That is the danger that he sees, and he has fled back to Isengard to double and treble his assault on Rohan.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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He added winning trebles was "the standard and expectation we've set".
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2025
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
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
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
Malawi has become an increasingly important market for Tanzanian goods in recent years, with exports trebling between 2018 and 2023, according to official Tanzanian figures.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2025
The Cabinet Office has grown the most of any department proportionally, approximately trebling in size since the EU referendum.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025
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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Part 2 Vocabulary (Unit 3)
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