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 Anders Dreyer scored twice, leapfrogging Iloski for the team scoring lead, as San Diego FC won its fourth consecutive road match and remained at the top of Major League Soccer’s Western Conference standings. Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 July 2025 The camp requested that FEMA, the agency responsible for creating maps that help warn Americans where water might rise, remove more than a dozen buildings from what FEMA designates a floodplain at least twice in 2013, 2019 and 2020, the documents show. Laura Sullivan, NPR, 13 July 2025 At twice as wide as Mount Everest is tall, A11pl3Z would be the third interstellar object — an object that originates from outside the solar system — ever to be found, after ‘Oumuamua in 2017 and a comet called 2I/Borisov in 2019. Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025 To date, the Timbers have leased but not owned the Tualatin Hills district land that includes their current indoor training facility, which has been expanded twice since 2015 to its current 27,000 square feet and includes a grass field and synthetic turf. Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 1 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for twice
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  • Boston only had two baserunners advance past first base against the Blue Jays starter, once on Roman Anthony’s ground rule double in the first and later in the fifth when Ceddanne Rafaela singled and reached second on David Hamilton’s ensuing walk.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 28 June 2025
  • A day after his ninth-inning double tied the game only to have Will Smith hit a walk-off homer in the bottom of the inning, Bogaerts went 4-for-4 with a home run and a double and scored the Padres’ first three runs.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2025

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“Twice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twice. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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