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threefold

adjective as in three times as many

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About 13% of those investigated for involvement in terrorism were under 18 - a threefold increase in the last three years, he added.

From BBC

Washington annually gives Israel more than $3 billion in aid, ratcheting that figure up threefold since Oct.

During his tenure, the country has "grown to become the world’s fifth-largest economy. It’s almost twice as big as it was, and its stock market has grown threefold since he took office."

From Salon

“We had a threefold increase in referrals of patients who were wanting to be scheduled to discuss vasectomies and the number of vasectomies performed around this time increased dramatically.”

According to the Public Housing Authorities Directors Association, the percentage of rent that public housing agencies across the country were unable to collect from tenants grew threefold between 2019 and 2022.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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