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With the cold weather and the high cost of heating fuel, homeowners were hit with a double whammy this winter.
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Parsons goes down in Packers loss Sunday was also a double whammy for Micah Parsons and the Green Bay Packers in a loss to the Denver Broncos.
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Frank Nunns O'Connell, CNN Money, 15 Dec. 2025
And that's a double whammy for someone who's poor.
—Fatma Tanis, NPR, 13 Dec. 2025
So that was like kind of a double whammy.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Dec. 2025
The reading brought a sigh of relief, easing concerns that the economy was facing a double whammy of a softening labor market with reaccelerating inflation.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
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Frank Nunns O'Connell, CNN Money, 15 Dec. 2025
And that's a double whammy for someone who's poor.
—Fatma Tanis, NPR, 13 Dec. 2025
So that was like kind of a double whammy.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Dec. 2025
The reading brought a sigh of relief, easing concerns that the economy was facing a double whammy of a softening labor market with reaccelerating inflation.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for double whammy
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“Double whammy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/double%20whammy. Accessed 20 Dec. 2025.
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