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  • It was a couple of hundred dollars, so naturally, I was wanting to get my money back (I hadn't realized it was double-charged until I got my Visa bill), but it took a lot of calls to both WildBlue and Bank of America to finally get the charge taken off.

    Visa and MasterCard Rules in Business Anne-Marie 2008

  • If you're a Comcast cable TV customer and they sent you a M-Card, a card that lets you use two tuners off the same cable card, make sure you're not getting double-charged, reports blogger Christopher Price.

    Don't Let Comcast Charge You Double For One M-Card - The Consumerist 2008

  • The campaign, in the course of apologizing, mentioned that others had been similarly double-charged.

    Obama Camp: "Almost All" Of $40 Million Raised In March Is For Primary 2009

  • NEW YORK — Starbucks Corp. said Wednesday it has re-paid all one million customers the gourmet coffee chain inadvertently double-charged on Memorial Day weekend.

    Kase Wickman: Starbucks Offers Better Same-Sex Medical Benefits Than Obama 2009

  • In his masticated oxfords, the Professor would shuffle up to Dickie, as he shuffled up to all unattached males (and Western couples should they appear to be tourists), greet him politely, and then inquire-as earnestly and hopefully as if he were asking an esteemed colleague if he might wish to attend a conference on double-charged subatomic particles:

    Villa Incognito Robbins, Tom 2003

  • With double-charged cannon, with loaded muskets ready at hand, and with pikes and cutlasses laid out on deck, one for each man, where we could snatch them up as soon as we had spent our first fire, we grinned from behind the nettings at our erstwhile shipmates.

    The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

  • Now we saw many junks and small native craft, which we viewed with uncomfortable suspicion, for though our cannon were double-charged and though loaded muskets were stacked around the mizzenmast, we were very, very few to stand off an attack by those yellow demons who swarmed the Eastern seas in the time of my boyhood and who, for all I know, swarm them still.

    The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

  • At this moment I can think of but one finer thing -- and that is when, wearied of being short-changed and bilked and double-charged, and held up for tips or tribute at every step, you are leaving Paris on a Saturday night -- or, in fact, any night.

    Europe Revised 1910

  • I watched again all last night in the same cover, gun in hand, double-charged with buckshot.

    Can Such Things Be Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1909

  • I watched again all last night in the same cover, gun in hand, double-charged with buckshot.

    Can Such Things Be 1893

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