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  • NEW DELHI -- India's central bank raised its main lending rate by 0.25 percentage points Tuesday and its borrowing rate by a larger-than-expected 0.50 percentage point, seeking to quell double-d igit inflation.

    RBI Raises Rates to Tame Inflation 2010

  • Oh, and on a completely unrelated note - anyone else get completely distracted by the double-d breast feeding article teaser on the Slate page?

    White Fame in China 2007

  • That she has made me the object of jeer and ridicule with that d-- d cotton gown, and those double-d -- d thick shoes?

    Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 Various

  • That she has made me the object of jeer and ridicule with that d--- d cotton gown and those double-d --- d thick shoes -- I vow and protest they've got nails in them!

    My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • That she has made me the object of jeer and ridicule with that d--- d cotton gown and those double-d --- d thick shoes -- I vow and protest they've got nails in them!

    My Novel — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • "When people say something about 'double-d,' they will be thinking of something entirely different."

    LT Saloon 2009

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