How to Use sixfold in a Sentence
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The price of bitcoin, the cryptocurrency, has risen more than sixfold in the past year.
—Jon Hilsenrath, WSJ, 7 May 2021
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Investors bought in, driving the shares up more than sixfold.
—Margot Patrick, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
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The camps lead to a sixfold increase in rates of depression and eight times the rate of suicide in the people who go through them.
—WIRED, 2 Sep. 2022
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The city recorded a sixfold increase in patients in a matter of weeks.
—Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2020
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Since the start of the outbreak, WHO said prices have surged, with surgical masks seeing a sixfold increase.
—NBC News, 4 Mar. 2020
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Hospital staff expect a sixfold increase in patients in the Madras ER around the eclipse.
—Lynne Terry, OregonLive.com, 10 Aug. 2017
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Anxiety is linked to a sixfold increase in burnout rates.
—Gary Beckstrand, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2023
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Revenue, which Rec Room earns when users make in-game purchases, grew more than sixfold year-over-year in 2020.
—Matt Grossman, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2021
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That’s a nearly sixfold increase from two months ago, when there were 2,226 patients.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2020
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That figure represents a more than sixfold increase compared to the first half of last year.
—Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2022
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That implies a sixfold increase in real value over the decade.
—Robert J. Shiller, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2021
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Plus, new daily infections have plateaued over the last two weeks, and are still up more than sixfold from the pre-delta summertime low.
—Joe Walsh, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
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Meanwhile, the percentage of Afghan girls who attend secondary school has grown more than sixfold.
—Richard Galant, CNN, 18 Apr. 2021
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The sixfold increase took place in the first four months of the Iranian year (from March 21 to July 22), reported Tasnim agency.
—Hadas Gold, CNN, 27 July 2022
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Peloton shares, which grew roughly sixfold amid the pandemic, fell by more than 7% on Monday.
—Sharon Terlep, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2021
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Our team and others have shown that the sixfold increase in CO2 during the end-Permian collapse happened over the course of perhaps tens of thousands of years.
—Chris Mays, Scientific American, 23 June 2022
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Disney shareholders, in the meantime, have seen a sixfold increase in their stock’s value since 2005.
—Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2019
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Their data shows battery costs falling more than sixfold since 2010.
—Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2020
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The drop occurred despite a sixfold increase in testing at public health labs, most of which checked for influenza A and B along with the coronavirus.
—Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2021
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The Pentagon also announced a sixfold increase in production of heavy artillery shells to meet the demand in Ukraine.
—Maria Varenikova, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
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Girls wrestling, while not yet recognized as its own IHSA sport, saw more than 670 participants, a sixfold increase in just three years.
—John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 30 Aug. 2019
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On average, France has recorded one fatal shooting every two and a half months since the law passed, compared with one every 16 months before the law — a sixfold increase.
—Constant Méheut, New York Times, 30 June 2023
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The study also found a nearly sixfold increase in ectopic pregnancies -- when the fertilized egg grows outside a woman's uterus, the review found.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 1 Apr. 2021
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Interest rates were closer to zero for nine out of the last 13 years, during which time wind and solar generation increased more than sixfold.
—Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 21 June 2022
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That had jumped to 6.5 million prescriptions last year — a more than sixfold increase over the 15-year period, according to data from IMS Health, a drug market research firm.
—John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
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In August, an Upstate New York poison control center warned parents of a sixfold increase in calls about children consuming foods with cannabis.
—Ellen McCarthy, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Oct. 2022
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Namibia’s wildlife numbers have grown sixfold since the ’60s, when private landowners first were given rights to use the animals for economic benefit.
—Kit Ramgopal and Matt Cooke, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2017
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Disease Control and Prevention numbers showed nearly a sixfold increase in omicron's share of infections in just one week.
—Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 21 Dec. 2021
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California properties at risk of wildfire are expected to see a sixfold increase in 30 years.
—Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2022
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But some installers in California have reported a sixfold increase in that rate.
—Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2019
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