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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Richardson is betting on music at a time when other cities — including Los Angeles — are doubling down on sports, warehousing or data centers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos are doubling down on their commitment to fashion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 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
He believes many creators are "doubling down on the realness" to give themselves a place on the feed amongst "a sea of AI-generated content which is flooding or AI slop as it's been termed".
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2025
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
