Etymology
Origin of twentyfold
Example Sentences
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Its stock has risen more than twentyfold since its June 2024 Hong Kong listing.
From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026
The amount of electronic waste flooding into the country has increased twentyfold in the past decade, from around 3,000 tonnes a year before the Chinese ban to 60,000 now, according to environmental group Earth Thailand.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2025
In the depths of the pandemic, as global supply chains buckled and the cost of shipping a container to China soared nearly twentyfold, Marco Villarreal spied an opportunity.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
And film photography has been on the rise among young people, with film sales increasing twentyfold from 2020 to 2022.
From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2023
That’s a fivefold increase in the size of the group, but a twentyfold increase in the amount of information processing needed to “know” the other members of the group.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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