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  • verb Present participle of triple.

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  • noun increase by a factor of three

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Examples

  • Does anybody feel safer knowing that the administrations reaction to the number more then tripling is to stop telling us how many attacks there were?

    Archive 2005-04-01 Cass Dems 2005

  • Does anybody feel safer knowing that the administrations reaction to the number more then tripling is to stop telling us how many attacks there were?

    Well if you don't have anything nice to say we won't let you say anything at all Cass Dems 2005

  • The results of those elections are likely to be particularly unwelcome to the Liberal Democrats, which has broken a number of pre-election pledges since joining the coalition, namely tripling the cap on university tuition fees and increasing the sales tax.

    U.K. Referendum Vote to Test Coalition's Unity Ainsley Thomson 2011

  • We have a 3-year plan of tripling, which is a 24.5% annual growth.

    unknown title 2011

  • Standard Chartered economist Stephen Green Friday called the tripling of lending power to the IMF to around $750 billion a "big indirect win" for the Chinese export sector as the funding is likely to be put towards shoring up emerging markets such as Mexico,

    MarketWatch.com - Top Stories 2009

  • JWT says it will spend "at least seven figures" on training this year while Leo Burnett says it is "tripling" its training budget.

    Kids Lend a Digital Hand Suzanne Vranica 2011

  • While the specifics of the deal include a number of wretched ideas, such as tripling the tax rate on capital gains, the fatal trap for Mr. Cameron and the Tories lies in the constitutional change that was a sine qua non for Liberal Democrat support:

    Stromata Blog 2010

  • While the specifics of the deal include a number of wretched ideas, such as tripling the tax rate on capital gains, the fatal trap for Mr. Cameron and the Tories lies in the constitutional change that was a sine qua non for Liberal Democrat support:

    Stromata Blog: 2010

  • While the specifics of the deal include a number of wretched ideas, such as tripling the tax rate on capital gains, the fatal trap for Mr. Cameron and the Tories lies in the constitutional change that was a sine qua non for Liberal Democrat support:

    Britain 2010

  • While the specifics of the deal include a number of wretched ideas, such as tripling the tax rate on capital gains, the fatal trap for Mr. Cameron and the Tories lies in the constitutional change that was a sine qua non for Liberal Democrat support:

    David Cameron’s Short, Dim Future 2010

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