double
adjective
twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc..
are doubling
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present progressiveof double.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Now, toy companies have created business models that are capable of living in a world with tariffs, and they are doubling down on the segments driving growth, reinforcing their confidence for the year ahead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
“We are doubling down, even as much of the industry has pulled back,” Sarandos said, according to a written transcript of his opening remarks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026
"If you think of the EU delegation this year, with its leadership coming, it's very clear that we are doubling down on our engagement with the EU."
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026
Now, in this frozen tundra of a city, in a state best known for its enduring Midwestern niceness, residents of Minnesota are doubling down.
From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2026
And arithmeticians seem to me a little slow to remark the importance of the old child's puzzle about the nails in the horseshoe—when it is populations that are doubling themselves, instead of farthings.
From Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work by John Ruskin
