sixfold
adjective
six·fold
ˈsiks-ˌfōld 
-ˈfōld
-ˈfōld
1
: having six units or members
2
: being six times as great or as many
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The office has seen a sixfold increase in launches in the past six years, from 26 in 2019 to 157 last year — with SpaceX leading the pack.
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Heather Vogell, ProPublica, 11 Feb. 2025
The cost of the Trans Mountain expansion, which nearly tripled the line's capacity to 890,000 barrels a day, ballooned more than sixfold by the time it was completed.
—Robert Tuttle Bloomberg News (wpns), arkansasonline.com, 9 Feb. 2025
The ex-president's move resulted in a sixfold increase in the tariffs on Chinese goods as compared with prior to 2018, PIIE noted, reaching a high of 21% in January 2020, which is still far below Trump’s 2024 proposal.
—Alison Durkee, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
That would be a roughly sixfold increase over 2015, the year before the fentanyl crisis began.
—Maurice Tamman, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2024
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Heather Vogell, ProPublica, 11 Feb. 2025
The cost of the Trans Mountain expansion, which nearly tripled the line's capacity to 890,000 barrels a day, ballooned more than sixfold by the time it was completed.
—Robert Tuttle Bloomberg News (wpns), arkansasonline.com, 9 Feb. 2025
The ex-president's move resulted in a sixfold increase in the tariffs on Chinese goods as compared with prior to 2018, PIIE noted, reaching a high of 21% in January 2020, which is still far below Trump’s 2024 proposal.
—Alison Durkee, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
That would be a roughly sixfold increase over 2015, the year before the fentanyl crisis began.
—Maurice Tamman, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2024
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“Sixfold.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sixfold. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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