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doubling
[ duhb-ling ]
noun
- the part of the upper or lower end of one spar of a mast that is overlapped by another spar above or below it.
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The rebels though seemed somewhat chastened by the result despite more than doubling the anti-Boehner votes from two years ago.
Doubling down on Schedule I is, at best, a deranged way to push Americans away from “medical,” and toward recreational, use.
A whole population of 11 million with every iron in the fire doubling as a finger in a dike.
You are converging two events that are freighted with expectations, essentially doubling your risk of disaster.
True, true, Thanksgrabbing behemoths like Sears and Kmart are doubling down on doorbuster dementia.
He threw the Matin on the grass, and, doubling himself up in his chair regarded her earnestly.
I grabbed hold of the vise-locking screw to keep my knees from doubling under me.
The doubling of the Cape of Good Hope being the last important event, which he places in 1497.
And that motor parts plant on the outskirts with its heavy back-log of defense orders that had compelled a doubling of its help.
Before doubling a suit declaration a player should feel almost certain that he is as strong as the declarer.
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