as in twice
to two times the amount or degree we were doubly certain of her guilt after we read the article in the newspaper

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Recent Examples of doubly Conversion of the state’s electric power system to renewable sources such as wind and solar is doubly tricky. Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2025 If anything, the anemic numbers were doubly disappointing for ESPN, recorded in the year the field was expanded to 12 teams. Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, 25 Jan. 2025 To get to New Orleans and Super Bowl LIX by knocking off Harris’ Commanders would be doubly sweet for the Illadelph. David Aldridge, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025 Stock market investing is always risky, and speculative stock-market investing, as in quantum computing stocks (or AI, turn-of-the-century dotcoms or Bitcoin not too long ago), is doubly risky. Vineer Bhansali, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for doubly 

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“Doubly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doubly. Accessed 24 Feb. 2025.

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