fourfold
comprising four parts or members.
four times as great or as much.
in fourfold measure.
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How to use fourfold in a sentence
The number of new cases reported daily has increased fourfold over the last month, prompting the New York Times to comment that “the national outlook is worsening quickly.”
4 important question about COVID booster shots, answered | Claire Maldarelli | August 12, 2021 | Popular-ScienceYears after California voted to lower property taxes, funding had plummeted for all public schools, and tuition for state colleges and universities had risen fourfold.
“We’ve Found the Enemy, and It’s Not Each Other.” Heather McGhee's Quest to End America’s Zero-sum Thinking on Race | Alana Semuels | July 23, 2021 | TimeThe cotton crop produced by the enslaved in Mississippi multiplied more than fourfold over the course of just eight years.
America's Interstate Slave Trade Once Trafficked Nearly 30,000 People a Year—And Reshaped the Country's Economy | Joshua D. Rothman | April 20, 2021 | TimeSince 2017, when Duo Tongguang was incorporated, TIZA’s revenue has increased almost fourfold, to more than half a billion dollars in 2019.
Here's How Shopping Scams on Facebook Are Ripping Off Thousands of Customers, With the Money Flowing Overseas | Andrew R. Chow | December 19, 2020 | TimeThey are now up about 245% in 2020 after previously climbing more than fourfold.
Peloton teams with Beyoncé to produce new workout series | Rachel King | November 10, 2020 | Fortune
Her basic argument, though it takes some work to decipher, is fourfold.
Fact-Checking Suzanne Somers’s Claim That Obamacare is a Socialist Ponzi Scheme | Brandy Zadrozny | October 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTRevenues rose fourfold from $28.2 million in 2010 to $106.3 million in 2011, then rose three-fold to $316.9 million in 2012.
The stock has risen more than fourfold since its low of July 2011 and has nearly tripled so far in 2012.
This little unexpected communication increased that dread fourfold.
Elster's Folly | Mrs. Henry WoodThere are two serious difficulties with this fourfold classification (isolating, prefixing, suffixing, symbolic).
Language | Edward SapirThe greatest relative growth was in 1918, when the membership grew fourfold.
Educational Work of the Girl Scouts | Louise Stevens BryantEven the grave and mighty Vishnoo delights in the lotus, which is one of the four emblems he holds in his fourfold arms.
Gibraltar in mid-ocean might have fourfold its present power, yet would be valueless in a military sense.
The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future | A. T. Mahan
British Dictionary definitions for fourfold
/ (ˈfɔːˌfəʊld) /
equal to or having four times as many or as much
composed of four parts
by or up to four times as many or as much
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