as in dual
consisting of two members or parts that are usually joined
the double-barreled goal of the company is to do well in the marketplace and to do good in the community
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Recent Examples of double-barreled
The double-barreled title of Nightbitch satirizes both feminism and female self-loathing.
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Armond White, National Review, 13 Dec. 2024
The double-barreled joke played Vance's past comments noting that only women with families cared about the fate of the nation.
—Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2024
Ruidoso, a scenic town of nearly 8,000 in southern New Mexico, is at the mercy of an enduring, double-barreled disaster.
—Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
Then an older man steps out of a nearby house and walks toward him with a long, double-barreled gun.
—Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
Low-income communities of color are particularly vulnerable to this double-barreled threat driven by climate change, according to the paper published Friday in the journal Science Advances.
—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2024
The allspice dram in particular doesn’t mess around—even a little bit brings a double-barreled blast of spice to the drink—making this drink equally suited standing around an afternoon barbeque or sitting around an evening fireplace.
—Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2023
The walkout is the first double-barreled strike by actors and screenwriters in more than six decades.
—Andrew Dalton, Anchorage Daily News, 14 July 2023
Armond White, National Review, 13 Dec. 2024
The double-barreled joke played Vance's past comments noting that only women with families cared about the fate of the nation.
—Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2024
Ruidoso, a scenic town of nearly 8,000 in southern New Mexico, is at the mercy of an enduring, double-barreled disaster.
—Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
Then an older man steps out of a nearby house and walks toward him with a long, double-barreled gun.
—Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
Low-income communities of color are particularly vulnerable to this double-barreled threat driven by climate change, according to the paper published Friday in the journal Science Advances.
—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2024
The allspice dram in particular doesn’t mess around—even a little bit brings a double-barreled blast of spice to the drink—making this drink equally suited standing around an afternoon barbeque or sitting around an evening fireplace.
—Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2023
The walkout is the first double-barreled strike by actors and screenwriters in more than six decades.
—Andrew Dalton, Anchorage Daily News, 14 July 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for double-barreled
Adjective
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Fire took their jobs Jan. 14, 2025 Steele, 75, is heartbroken over the dual loss of his place of solace and his beekeeping business.—
Colleen Shalby,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Jan. 2025
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After all, the production calendar was disrupted by dual Hollywood labor strikes the year prior, postponing major blockbuster releases into the second half of 2024.—
Sarah Whitten,
CNBC,
15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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These twin truths are at the heart of our nation’s debate over the policy.—
Vox Staff,
Vox,
23 Jan. 2025
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Two people who died when a truck plunged into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., have been identified as twin brothers.—
Abigail Adams,
People.com,
22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Schrodinger's cat is revealed as either dead or just very quiet, a spectrum of future possibilities becomes a single path forward, and this nice, simple new reality can then interact with the binary synaptic machinery of the brain.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
22 Jan. 2025
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Connected together, qubits have far more processing power than binary 0s and 1s.—
Britney Nguyen,
Quartz,
22 Jan. 2025
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