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multiply

[muhl-tuh-plahy] / ˈmʌl təˌplaɪ /


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Meanwhile, just seconds after it launched, $LAPTOP earned enough trading volume to see its valuation multiply exponentially, shooting up from $37 to over $200.

From Slate Sep. 9, 2026

He described them as "very resilient" and said their short breeding cycle meant populations could multiply quickly in warm conditions.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

Tripling volumes, hitting annual release dates like clockwork, minimizing risky capital investments and returning more than $1 trillion to shareholders through dividends and buybacks helped Cook multiply Apple’s valuation 13 times during his tenure.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

His subsequent research showed that these precursor cells multiply dramatically around the edges of brain wounds.

From Science Daily Aug. 14, 2026

"It's just that I don't find it very difficult to multiply one number by another."

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

Nuclear proliferation just multiplies the odds that there’s going to be a mistake or miscalculation that causes nuclear weapons to be used, so the world should definitely be focused on not allowing more nuclear countries.

From Salon Jun. 15, 2026

A triple-leveraged ETF that multiplies those daily changes would wind up being worth about 1.4% less than the starting amount before expenses, which are often significant.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Datadog, down 25%, and Snowflake, down 41%, are in this group, too, although they’re younger companies trading at high multiplies of earnings.

From Barron's Apr. 16, 2026

It then multiplies that by the estimated average number of people in a household.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 5, 2025

When a hot virus multiplies in a host, it can saturate the body with virus particles, from the brain to the skin.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

In Cibolo, a city north of San Antonio with a population of 36,000, an authority grant multiplied the number of Flock cameras from 11 to 52.

From Salon Sep. 6, 2026

For an ice cream truck visiting a summer camp, the TAM is all the kids at the camp multiplied by how much ice cream each kid would buy that summer.

From Slate Sep. 1, 2026

But attacks have multiplied in 2026, particularly in the Gulf of Aden between Somalia and Yemen, which links the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean.

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

To unlock it, bad actors would have to figure out which prime numbers were multiplied together to produce the key, a vexing task.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

Even small improvements in speed and efficiency multiplied over millions of pilot miles added up to a difference that could tip the long-term balance of the war in the Allies’ favor.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

As of June, Lumen had put down approximately 19 million “fiber miles,” which is calculated by multiplying the length of the route by the number of fibers inside each cable.

From MarketWatch Sep. 19, 2026

Alongside rapidly multiplying cancer cells are immune cells, newly formed blood vessels and a particularly concerning group of cancer cells that remain unusually quiet.

From Science Daily Sep. 6, 2026

Still, four and a half years into the war, criticism is multiplying over the lack of dialogue between society and the presidency, which critics say has become increasingly insular.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

It might not be accurate, but it is close enough that people can apply their situation to it by multiplying up or down.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

Thus, no matter what you do, multiplying a number by zero gives you zero.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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