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Recent Examples of doublyThe announcement was doubly sweet for Carolina Guevara, chief communications officer for the L.A. Archdiocese, who was in Piura, Peru, celebrating her grandmother’s 105th birthday when the new pope was announced.—Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2025 The news investigation detailed how students were doubly penalized: when they were punished in school, with detention or a suspension, and then when they were ticketed by police for minor misbehavior.—Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 28 May 2025 Her father is, too, his moment now also hers, doubly precious for being shared.—Jack Lang, New York Times, 27 May 2025 Differential picks are those that break from this mould, delivering performance that is doubly valuable because of its lack of correlation with the majority of other teams.—Steven Desmyter, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for doubly
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twice
Adverb
Newcastle twice took the lead before going 3-2 down and then equalised through Fabian Schar at the death.
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George Caulkin,
New York Times,
29 May 2025
The strategy that made Judge the first Yankees player to intentionally walk twice in the first two innings of a game since Gene Woodling on Aug. 30, 1953, worked once, but led to the only run of the game in its other appearance.
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