whammy
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In short, the widowed taxpayer often faces a double whammy: Income often falls while tax rates increase.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Unlike most campus fiction, its scope extends well beyond the cloister of the liberal arts classroom to whammy the entire university system, from its financial model to its function within a globalized economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
So much can go wrong if he’s pitching, and any pitching injury could have the double whammy of sidelining him as a hitter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
When her daughter, Valentine, was born, “it was a double whammy of like, who are you and what are you offering this world?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Doug got the triple whammy: glasses, braces, pimples.
From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers
Conditioning skates, wind sprints, whammies, two-and-a-halfs, bag skates — many names for the basic, infamous drill where one goes up and down the ice at high speed.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2022
The list begins with two whammies: no poverty and zero hunger.
From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2019
As deeply serious as it is deeply funny, “Get Out” is perfectly timed to jolt audiences out of their midwinter blahs, delivering classic genre whammies with a generous serving of cultural critique.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2017
There are other whammies probably that I haven’t mentioned.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 21, 2015
“Actually, as many whammies as you could come up with.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2012
