How To Use Doubles In A Sentence
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This company's workhorse is lemna, also known as duckweed-a tiny, aquatic clonal plant that doubles its biomass every 36 hours-and is skilled at making proteins that mammalian cells struggle, and often fail, to produce.
News from The Scientist
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This is the ominous new era of doublespeak about land-use planning in the megacity.
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As such, video game enemies in sibling-based stories are more likely to be doppelgängers, shadows or doubles of the player-characters.
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When shooting doubles, as in sporting clays, you get the option of having two different chokes for ea. shot with an o/u.
High grade trap guns
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As well as standard doubles, the hotel has well-equipped suites overlooking the golf course, each with two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen and a living room.
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For good measure, he also lost his doubles match.
Great Sporting Failures
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I already had them figured for bourbon drinkers, and on receiving confirmation I poured a pair of doubles, left the bottle out and placed a tray of ice on the counter.
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The RT enzyme converts the single-stranded virion into doublestranded DNA for subsequent integration into the host cell genome.
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About every 18 months, the number of transistors in computer chips doubles.
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Birth involving such close relations doubles risk of congenital defects.
Times, Sunday Times
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The advertisement depicts two lovers together on the beach, in one scene riding horses, which will be filmed with stunt doubles.
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And although Charlie hadn't made it clear when he announced the convention, it should have been obvious to me that his doubles of overcalls couldn't possibly be for takeout, since that would most likely lead to his wife's becoming declarer.
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The actors and stunt doubles do their jobs well.
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Unilateral ovariectomy in rabbits doubles the ovulation rate in the remaining ovary and the adjacent uterine horn is crowded with embryos.
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Can't I just wear Granny's long hopsack skirt that covers the veins and doubles as a hand towel?
Deborah Divine: Forget Reinvention
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Paddle is largely a doubles game, marked by rapid volleying at the net.
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With a USB cable and software, it doubles as a webcam for video chat.
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Fischer, who doubles as German vice chancellor, is in Japan on a two-day official visit from Monday.
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One need only read the curious doublespeak of the so-called black block anarchists, the group responsible for the only destructive protests at the Vancouver Olympics, to realize what kind of addle-brained morons we're dealing with.
Vue Weekly
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The concept was later refined as "doublespeak" -- which is simply the notion that if you say something often enough, you can convince normal people that something is its opposite.
George Orwell is Reborn as Mitch McConnell
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If someone then bids higher, any previous doubles and redoubles are cancelled.
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This detangler also doubles as a defining lotion, so it's perfect for wash-and-wear.
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He collects me, bearing a torch that doubles as a radio blaring reggaeton, and we walk down the starlit beach.
Times, Sunday Times
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French in Holyoke actually doubles the inhabitancy of the whole town, with what effect upon their own special quarter may easily be imagined.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885
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But playing mixed presenting doubles with Sue Barker will probably be a doddle for the towering hardbody, who effortlessly sails through one of the busiest schedules in sports broadcasting.
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Mars, slow-moving below Leo's hindquarters, doubles in brightness from mag 0.2 to -0.6 as its distance plummets from 156 million to 119 million km and its diameter swells to 12 arcsec.
Starwatch: The January night sky
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The fore-end is mounted to the barrels not with a cheap spring latch as on late American doubles, but rather with a nicely inlet lever release.
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Our beat-up Citroën is a welcome distraction for the traffic-stalled touristsin the lanes beside us; they have hours to go before reaching the sea, the color of whichmimicsthe hue of dusty blue coating our car evidence of organic farming here at the vinery, where our family car doubles as a tractor-delivery vehicle... door dents and all.
French Word-A-Day:
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Cover with a cloth and leave in a warm place until dough doubles in size. 5.
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Dan Donohue, who plays the title role in the OSF production of "Hamlet" that I praised in this space last week, doubles as the snobbish headwaiter of "She Loves Me," and he turns out to be as good a comedian as he is a tragedian.
In Love With 'She Loves Me'
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The six new squash courts can be converted for use as four doubles courts.
Times, Sunday Times
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The word doublespeak grew out of this post-1984 culture and is just as timely today.
Beth Arnold: Spinning the Spin
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The Swiss won gold in the doubles in 2008 and wants singles glory this time around.
The Sun
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The ‘sword umbrella’, the handle of which is shaped like a hilt, doubles as a mock sword when rolled for children to fence with.
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The bedroom accommodation will comprise two doubles and a large single in the three-bedroom houses and two doubles in all other units.
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Tennis is a good aerobic workout although singles is more effective than doubles.
BE YOUR BEST: How Anyone can become Fit, Healthy and Confident
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Many potential entrants argue that such an entry fee could better be spent on say, three cold $100 doubles or exactas.
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So how about three doubles and a treble?
The Sun
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What a heartening response without any of the standard political doublespeak.
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On the tennis court she found herself opposite him in a game of mixed doubles.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
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She doubles as his wife and secretary
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The word doublespeak was coined in the early 1950's after George Orwell's book, 1984, was published in the late 1940's.
Beth Arnold: Spinning the Spin
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Three thousand prisoners still remained inside the complex, some of whom shouted abuse through their cell-window grilles while their actor doubles went through their paces.
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A new subsystem building doubles as a meeting hall and the island's first visitor center.
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Jane paired off with Alice in a table tennis doubles match.
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The history of doppelgängers and doubles, you see, is intimately bound up with human mortality and the origins of image making.
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Famous magicians excel in the use of stage doubles and even twins, in order to get spectacular results that seem to defy the laws of the universe.
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I play a sport called handball and my inspiration comes from watching my dad and my mom play for many, many, many years and my dad winning a trophy in doubles.
CNN Transcript Sep 7, 2006
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It will certainly become one today if Britain cannot conjure a doubles victory.
Times, Sunday Times
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With Mary Pierce, Martina Hingis and Lindsay Davenport ranked in the top half-dozen, women's doubles is hitting a golden era.
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No cuckoos in Oberlin -- at least none that I have heard - although I did encounter a skunk who was drowsing under my car in the old shed that doubles as a garage behind my house ... you should have seen me run the other way as he woke up!!!
Jean's Knitting
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You have to pay for this level of quality, and a standard twin or double room will set you back £260 per night, although smaller doubles are available for £220.
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Not having children or having them late in life doubles the risk, as does heavy alcohol consumption.
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He broke strings in both his Prince rackets during the victory and had to use his third - choice Wilson racket to complete the victory, doubles partner Tom Sanders lending him a spare just in case.
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The table console doubles up as a personalised checkout.
SHOPPED: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets
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The property also has a designer kitchen and a bedroom that doubles as a media room.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wessels was also a runner-up in the men's doubles with his fellow countryman Melle van Gemerden.
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So the thought of watching a film in which he doubles, triples and quadruples was frankly a most scary prospect.
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Both are large doubles with built-in wardrobes and mirrored vanity units.
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Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.
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They won the first tournament's doubles finals and were then runners-up in the second tournament.
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If the Danes are frustrated in the singles event, they will be looking for great things from world champions Lars Paaske and Jonas Rasmussen who start as favourites in the men's doubles.
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The mould doubles the riboflavin content, increases the niacin level by almost seven times, decreases pantothenate slightly, and, unfortunately, decreases thiamine content, but surprisingly vitamin B12 is found in nutritionally significant amounts (23).
Chapter 9
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Clare Wood has found herself restricted to doubles this week after injuring her right ankle in a basketball accident 10 days ago.
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Doublespeak, purveyed through television news and cinema, invades the mind of every citizen.
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Now there's a theory called supersymmetry, which doubles the number of particles in the standard model.
Brian Cox on CERN's supercollider
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B&B in standard doubles is from £127; superior doubles and suites go from £165 to £250.
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My opinion comes from lectures I've been giving all over the country on "Ethical Decision-making" which, after my "whistleblowing" experience, doubles as a warning about how easy it is to get sucked into doing bad things and/or to go along with wrongful, illegal decisions.
Coleen Rowley: Time to End the Torture Experiment!
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The kitchen table doubles as my desk when I'm writing.
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If the average wage doubles, then we'll all have twice as much to spend on where we live.
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It includes an integrated igniter and, once open, the lid doubles as a windbreak.
Times, Sunday Times
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Including a combination movable telecamera and an Internet phone which doubles as the control for the camerabot.
November 28th, 2007
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If total costs more than double when output of all products doubles, then there are multiproduct diseconomies of scale.
Executive Economics
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Shridhar was always a showboater and wanted Keanu Reeves, while Arivindan and Usiku both selected Harrison Ford as their theatrical doubles.
Passeridae
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Unless the risk is defined it is political doublespeak.
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Because of Moore's Law - that the number of transistors placeable on a chip doubles about every two years - further reductions in cost of the DNA sequencing chip are inevitable, Dr. Rothberg said.
NYT > Home Page
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In the remake of the 1976 sandlot classic Bad News Bears, he doubles the ‘anti’ in his anti-hero.
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The doublespeak is evident in that it's all coined in words of freedom.
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The Flying Scotsman has a degenerative eye condition and plays in part from memory because he struggles to focus on doubles and trebles.
The Sun
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They sold, though the precious metal is often touted as a safe haven in times of economic trouble and doubles as a hedge against inflation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hence, if my article was intended as doublespeak, the foregoing is my apology.
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Sun, the 2004 women's Olympic doubles champion from China, combined brilliantly with Serbian Zimonjic to dominate the match and win 7-6(7-4) 6-4 in 81 minutes on Rod Laver Arena.
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This is too unlikely a similarity to be mere coincidence, and it produces the eerie suspicion/sensation that the women are doubles of one another.
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A key feature of this flow field is the kinematic linearity, i.e., doubling the pipette pressure doubles the shear stress on the cell surface.
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Upstairs there are two doubles and one twin bedroom to the front of the house, all decorated in tasteful but unusual colours.
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From the blatant Republican policy doublespeak emanating from think-tank sponsored word doctors to the outright obstruction and lies expectorated by Republican congressional representatives and senators, the very concept of governance can only be considered once the culprits are removed.
Steven Weber: Comedy Relief
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Additional features include a concrete outhouse which doubles as a boiler house and storage shed.
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One more try could get a precious ambition moving as Mars in your sign doubles your willpower and energy.
The Sun
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His narrative of addiction doubles as a meta-critique on the compulsive desire to reproduce text and image that characterizes postmodern textualities as well as the apparatuses that produce them.
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The drums lightly tap, the second guitar plays the main melody, and the bass doubles the second guitar.
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Wanting a slice of this popular pie, Eric decided to concentrate on making a cool tourer, complete with the usual Buell technology plus additional extras such as the neat tail pad that doubles as a pillion backrest and luggage rack.
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Its 70 doubles and eight duplex suites spread over two floors, with views of the chasm.
Times, Sunday Times
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The kitchen doubles as a dining room.
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As it happens, she plays a fierce doubles game, with a steady serve, a sure overhead, penetrating volleys and an occasional blazing return of serve.
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•Exeter 10, Oley 2: At Reiffton, Steve Hostrander went 4-for-4 with two doubles and three RBIs to lead Exeter (1-0, 6-1) over Oley (0-2, 2-5) in a game called after seven innings.
Berks county news
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My choice for the biggest snub is Lou Gehrig in 1934, when he got the triple crown, led the league in slugging, on-base percentage, games played (of course), total bases (409 of them), had 40 doubles and 109 walks, and finished fifth in the voting, losing to Mickey Cochrane who played 129 games, hit 2 home runs and had 180 total bases.
Is That Legal?: Worst MVP Snub?
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It doubles as a cricket stadium, though, and here the sixes were over long-on.
The Sun
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Instead of being ABDR, it doubles into an octoploid triticale,
5 Breeding Triticale
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Indonesia will send 14 players to the Olympics, consisting of two in the men's singles, six in the men's doubles, four in the mixed doubles and two in the women's doubles.
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So how about three doubles and a treble?
The Sun
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To the front are two good sized doubles, each fitted with a wardrobe and shelving unit.
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The director doubles as an actor.
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The Twins lead the American League in doubles and triples.
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The general opening triumph remains largely in tact, but he dampens the drums, doubles certain passages, equalizes, and transforms it into a loping choral dervish.
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His father is a prominent attorney and one-time doubles partner of George Bush.
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The restaurant she has established with husband Simon doubles as a gallery to exhibit her paintings, just as her culinary art is displayed on each plate.
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The talented twosome have won the tennis doubles again.
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$3 / mcf, which is the number that appears in a release that does not include the $4-7 million it cost to buy the land and drill the hole - costs that Dell suggests basically doubles the breakeven level of the well to $6 / mcf.
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What I want to say is that there is a lot of pressure on preparing singles, and many players fail exactly here, while they hit doubles or trebles nicely.
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Brothers Phil and James Langley put up a brave fight before going out of the men's doubles in the City of York Tennis Championships at St Peter's School last night.
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The first tournament was held the following year, with Jean and Richard Cross winning the mixed doubles, Terry and Tony Precious the men's doubles and Jean and Jill Cross the women's doubles.
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His oratory and intellectual robustness a breath of fresh air from the political doublespeak that obscures the core issues of the conflict.
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Instrumental support, which mostly doubles the vocal lines, is provided by bamboo flutes, two-stringed viols, lutes, dulcimer, and panpipes, gently seasoned by percussive punctuation.
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That is doublespeak, political gobbledygook.
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He had eight doubles, a triple and two home runs in his first month of major league play.
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Jane paired off with Alice in a table tennis doubles match.
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The table console doubles up as a personalised checkout.
SHOPPED: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets
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The chance for an all American doubles final was diminished after Gene Mako and Donald Bridge lost to Jack Crawford and Adrian Quist of
Evansville Courier & Press Stories
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Reid , on the other hand, won the Junior Doubles Championship.
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• Hotel Majestic (+1 415 441 1100, thehotelmajestic.com) has period styling and doubles from $115; at the other end of the aesthetic spectrum Hotel Tomo (+1 415 921 4000, jdvhotels.com/tomo) offers brightly coloured Japanese pop art and doubles from $129 Eva Wiseman, columnist, Observer magazine
Summer holidays: 10 of the best trips for couples
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A display of archery skills will be performed by a team which acted as stunt doubles for Richard Gere and Sean Connery in the film First Knight.
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Off-course layers will always keep hot-pots, his in particular, tight because of doubles and trebles and other multiple bets.
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The band's keyboard player doubles on trumpet to shake things up a bit.
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The number of doubles which can be declared and the payment for them depends on the number of players as follows.
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So how about three doubles and a treble?
The Sun
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The utter silence for several minutes that introduces the cropdusting sequence-no background music at all throughout the entire sequence, a genius move that doubles the eerie juxtapositions and dramatic ironies that makes the scene such a classic.
PopMatters
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The bandleader, who doubles as the vocalist, is a small, nimble man with a mobile face and dark, bristly hair.
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Last month, they were said to have squabbled after Venus crashed out in the first round of the French Open and fled back to Florida, leaving her sister without a doubles partner.
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The gene doublesex of Drosophila is the last gene in the genetic cascade that controls sex determination.
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He was teamed with his brother in the doubles.
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Don't let all the double taxation doublespeak make you doubt that for one minute.
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At best doublespeak makes language sound messy and vague; at worst it makes lies sound like truth.
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Hollywood has long employed body doubles to do the dangerous physical stunts for actors.
Times, Sunday Times
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It also doubles as a love story only possible in a sexually borderless early 21st century.
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Our 42-footer had four spacious cabins with doubles and two cabins with single berths.
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And when mixed doubles partner Leander Paes of India fell ill with a potentially life-threatening brain ailment before the U.S.
USATODAY.com - Tennis legend ages in style
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Medially the fibular facet doubles in width, becomes slightly concave with a smoothly rounded, raised margin, and faces principally dorsolaterally but also slightly proximally.
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The prestressing specialist Freyssinet International contributes over $350 million, while the major projects division more than doubles that amount.
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This is the environment where Dermot Desmond, the multimillionaire Irish tycoon and majority shareholder in Celtic, can be seen sharing a joke with Alastair Johnston, who doubles up his role on the board of the International Management Group as the chairman of Rangers.
The oak tree that is the epicentre of world golf during the Masters
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Leyton Orient v Swindon, Gillingham v Rotherham and Hereford v Macclesfield are all closely matched on paper and it could pay to do a trixie (three doubles and a treble) on all three finishing level at 9-4 apiece.
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The DVD is beautifully packaged in a bag that doubles as a post-paid return envelope - the whole concept is well thought out.
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It also doubles up as a powerful antioxidant.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here's where all the technical goodies come in - stunt doubles, location miniatures, long-lens shots - Treu spills it all.
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Tony Benshoof took the men's race, Courtney Zablocki won the women's race and Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin cruised to the doubles title.
USATODAY.com - Pikus-Pace slides to third World Cup win, weekly honor
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Among other syndromes, they mentioned doppelgängers or subjective doubles.
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By the time I've finished seeing students, marking their work, preparing classes, doing the admin etc. etc. that more than doubles.
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THE risk of a deadly heart attack almost doubles in cold spells, say researchers.
The Sun
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During the adolescent growth spurt, for a year or more, the velocity of height increase approximately doubles; a boy is likely to be growing again at the rate he first experienced about age 2.
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The two bedrooms are doubles with fitted wardrobes.
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The new Winchesters feature inertial triggers and a conventional tang safety that also doubles as a barrel selector.
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He seems to prefer candor to contention, honest talk to doublespeak.
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Each time the cells divide, the number of cells doubles.
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Piloted by a savvy young man called Wayan (who doubles as a guide), I'm going to remain unruffled even during the vast traffic jam that oozes between Ubud and Kuta.
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Upstairs two bedrooms are doubles and feature original cast iron fireplaces while the third bedroom is a single.
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Doubles players are more open and sociable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our spare bedroom doubles up as a study for Dan when he's working at home.
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If your partner doubles in second seat, you must respond if your RHO passes.
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Sun, the 2004 women's Olympic doubles champion from China, combined brilliantly with Serbian Zimonjic to dominate the match and win 7-6(7-4) 6-4 in 81 minutes on Rod Laver Arena.
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For doubles, the over-the-shoulder Holman features two racquet sleeves and a solid background with contrasting piping.
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After winning the U.S.Open doubles title with her sister Venus, Serena reiterated her apology and offered to give the line judge "a big ol' hug.
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The title doubles as a testimonial by Ms. Jones and her band.
NYT > Home Page
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So the thought of watching a film in which he doubles, triples and quadruples was frankly a most scary prospect.
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By contrast, doublespeak is dishonest and dangerous.
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The body of the burn victim becomes hypermetabolic, the respiratory rate doubles, and the patient—who may have difficulty swallowing a teaspoon of fluid-must somehow consume more than 3,500 calories a day.
Healed by Horses
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Express sincere gratitude - an effusive thanks for efforts made on your behalf doubles the chances that you'll be helped by that person again.
Times, Sunday Times
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The political season is always a prime opportunity to hear new examples of doublespeak - the use of language to make lies seem truthful.
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They play singly and also form a strong partnership in the doubles in the U15 grade, most of which will be in their home county.
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In addition to providing some history about them, it also doubles as a preface for describing the animation.
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Doubles of declarer are ringed, to make it easier to ensure that each player makes her compulsory two doubles of declarer.
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The columned lobby which doubles as the main office, spells opulence.
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There is an increasing variety of fire hoops available: attached/detachable wicks, rigid/floppy spines, led/fire combo hoops, collapsable, doubles, etc.
Hooping.org | Blog | Fire Up! Fire Hooping With Kahunahula
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What will happen when we get our legal gambling casinos and the influx of people doubles and triples?
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The history of doppelgängers and doubles, you see, is intimately bound up with human mortality and the origins of image making.
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Jack doubles as director and producer.
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As for the doubling honors, each set or combination doubles the total score once, and if there are five _doubling honors_ in a hand, the total score should be doubled five times -- for example: a player goes
Pung Chow The Game of a Hundred Intelligences. Also known as Mah-Diao, Mah-Jong, Mah-Cheuk, Mah-Juck and Pe-Ling
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As the demand for mortgage capital doubles, we have to make sure that the supply doubles too.
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In one scene she doubles for the actress when she parachutes into a pen of pigs.
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New evidence-based studies have proven that gender-based violence doubles women's risk for HIV, regularly used female microbicidal gels can reduce a woman's chances of contracting the virus by up to 54%, and small monthly cash transfers to school-age girls can cut their chances of contracting HIV by half.
Chi Mgbako: Africa's Women Turn 50
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The building is designed with plenty of dual function: exposed rafters provide additional storage, a dining-room cabinet doubles as an outdoor tool shed and the library windows roll open to convert the interior into a breezeway.
Molly’s Cabin by AGATHOM
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If you're playing people who don't know the doubles technique, when they hit it up smash it down the sidelines (wide court makes it hard to return) or straight down the middle.
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The players now bid as in Contract Bridge (doubles and redoubles are allowed), until one player passes.
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Steele mentions, with great tenderness, "that remarkable bashfulness, which is a cloak that hides and muffles merit;" and tells us, "that his abilities were covered only by modesty, which doubles the beauties which are seen, and gives credit and esteem to all that are concealed.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
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David, a former solicitor, was Welsh junior doubles champion in 1968, captained the tennis team at Nottingham University in 1969 and umpired the Wimbledon Men's Singles Final in 1984.
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Express sincere gratitude - an effusive thanks for efforts made on your behalf doubles the chances that you'll be helped by that person again.
Times, Sunday Times
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I began to wish it wasn't Martinho who was my partner in this deadly game of doubles.
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She believed that the members of her family had all been gradually replaced by doubles.
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Steele mentions with great tenderness that remarkable bashfulness, which is a cloak that hides and muffles merit; and tells us, that his abilities were covered only by modesty, which doubles the beauties which are seen, and gives credit and esteem to all that are concealed.
Life of Addison, 1672-1719
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The main reception area is a spacious open plan room that doubles as a living and dining room.
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It means he could even run up against his old partner Simon Archer, the Olympic bronze and Commonwealth gold medal winner at mixed doubles.
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The key-lock slider on the side of the phone doubles as a flash activator.
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The DVD is beautifully packaged in a bag that doubles as a post-paid return envelope - the whole concept is well thought out.
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The kitchen doubles as a dining room.
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Doubles as a gel eyeliner.
The Sun
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The small shop doubles as the reception area and crammed into the back of the site is a burger van.
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Wolf, this question of whether it was Saddam and the doubles -- I don't mean to use the term paranoid in the classic psychiatric sense.
CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2003
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The Irish firm also paid out £8,000 to a London punter for a £40 trixie (three doubles and a treble) on three correct half-time/full-time predictions on Saturday.
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The actors portraying their screen doubles are overwhelmingly so well cast, they save this movie of the week from well, being a cheesy movie of the week.
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The table console doubles up as a personalised checkout.
SHOPPED: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets
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After accessing the computer database, he found out that the president had several doubles - at least five.
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Hence, while necessary, ‘drawing the line’ is at the same time impossible, for each drawing of the line redoubles and redraws the line.