Example Sentences
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It doubled to 16% on Monday compared to before the weekend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The index had more than doubled from the start of the year to mid-June but has since lost around a third of its value.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Before The Open, Scheffler doubled down on previous comments he had made about there being "more to life than playing golf".
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The FDA, however, doubled down on the severity of the investigation, saying in an X post that the false positive doesn’t change “the overwhelming epidemiological data supporting the current voluntary recall by Taylor Farms.”
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
His Montmartre apartment, which doubled as his studio, was tiny.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
