as in double
to two times the amount or degree having been turned down before, he is twice shy about making any more marriage proposals

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Recent Examples of twice Neon, with a staff of 60 people, has pulled off the achievement twice in five years, making the indie film company the hottest label in town. Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 5 Mar. 2025 Performance for at least some machine learning workloads also goes way up—twice as fast as RDNA 3 and four times as fast as RDNA 2. Ars Technica, 5 Mar. 2025 The highly unusual ejection did nothing to stop Green’s fellow Democrats from showing their disdain for the Republican president, who was twice impeached by the House of Representatives, and later acquitted by the Senate during and in the immediate aftermath of his first term. Dan Mangan, CNBC, 5 Mar. 2025 In Dubai, she was approached by the man twice off the court, including at the Aviation Club Tennis Centre the day before her match, the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) said in a statement. Astha Rajvanshi, NBC News, 5 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for twice

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“Twice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twice. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.

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