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Examples of doubling
doubling
By 2001, 2,028 women picked up the same degrees, doubling the percentage to 44%.
From the businessweek.com
To support these efforts, Facebook is more than doubling its salesforce, to 130.
From the businessweek.com
Half of that increase, he says, should come from doubling sales of Office suite.
From the businessweek.com
Just smelting the steel and ammonia will get us well on the way to CO2 doubling.
From the guardian.co.uk
Doubling down on London as a base from which to invest appears to have paid off.
From the eu.techcrunch.com
Before you respond, I do agree that a doubling of Co2 leads to a little warming.
From the guardian.co.uk
They dominate that space, and the service is doubling in size every quarter now.
From the techcrunch.com
Their arrival marked the doubling of the station's permanent crew to six people.
From the usatoday.com
Improving the situation would require a costly doubling of the number of lights.
From the toledoblade.com
- A base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base; "he hit a double to deep centerfield"
- Downward and forward; "he was bent double with pain"
- Having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities; "a double (or dual) role for an actor"; "the office of a clergyman is twofold; public preaching and private influence"- R.W.Emerson; "every episode has its double and treble meaning"-Frederick Harrison
- Increase twofold; "The population doubled within 50 years"
- Hit a two-base hit
- A stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts; "his first job in Hollywood was as a double for Clark Gable"
- The Double is a term in association football which refers to winning a country's top tier division and its primary cup competition in the same season. It can also mean beating a team both home and away in the same league season, a feat often noted as doing the double over a particular side.
- Double (pronounced doo-BLAY) was a Swiss music duo best remembered for their 1986 hit single "The Captain of Her Heart".
- In baseball, a double is the act of a batter striking the pitched ball and safely reaching second base without being called out by the umpire, without the benefit of a fielder's misplay (see error) or another runner being put out on a fielder's choice.
