triple
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Whether the latest upswing in crude prices alters their longer-term outlook remains to be seen, as Brent’s return to triple digits sends government bond yields higher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The so-called triple lock pension policy guarantees that annual payments will increase by either average wage growth, inflation or 2.5% - whichever is highest.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Earlier in July, the influential Institute for Fiscal Studies think-tank suggested that the triple lock should be scrapped as part of a wider pensions overhaul.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
County’s coast soared into the 90s on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week, while inland valleys recorded highs hitting the triple digits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
As it was, he got a triple and drove in the winning run.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
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Around 77,000 people live here, but that number already triples during the summer due to incoming holidaymakers.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Despite Edwin Díaz giving up back-to-back triples in the ninth to force extra innings, the Dodgers beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 2-1 in 10 innings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
This deal triples QXO’s existing market opportunity and expands our total addressable market to over $200 billion.
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
Under the new rules, QQQ and other followers of the Nasdaq-100 will probably need to buy more after next month’s rebalance as its weight triples.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
Many of these homes had begun life as single-family dwellings and about half remained such, the others having been divided into doubles or triples.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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Then he tripled in the sixth and scored on a single by Will Smith.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
The healthcare costs for her family of four tripled in the past two years.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
And Knutti says that imbalance has roughly tripled over the past two decades - although the precise increase depends on which years are compared.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
The stock closed down 1.5% at $241.45, having nearly tripled in value this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The Los Alamos lab, recently established under Oppenheimer’s leadership, tripled to 40 kilograms its estimate of the quantity of U-235 needed for a bomb.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Still, Gervais remained undeterred, doubling and tripling down on his comedy and delivering a since-viral “I don’t care” monologue during his final hosting stint.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
Zambia is Africa's second-largest copper producer and the government has set an ambitious target of tripling production by 2031.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Charter rates for the so-called Very Large Crude Carriers, the most-watched vessels in the oil trade, have surged during the conflict, at times tripling from about $100,000 a day in peacetime.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Revenue was a record, more than tripling to 79.319 trillion won for the quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Technology had been moving so quickly, doubling, tripling, quadrupling in power.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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