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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of sextuple.

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Examples

  • New York's imprisonment rate, for example, has sextupled.

    Crimes, Courts And Cures Paul G. Cassell 2011

  • From 1960 to 1995, the violent crime rate in Fishtown more than sextupled while remaining nearly flat in Belmont.

    The New American Divide Charles Murray 2012

  • Exploration and production earnings sextupled to $502 million as the company's U.S. business returned to the black and international profit nearly tripled.

    Corporate Watch 2010

  • Exploration and production earnings sextupled to $502 million as the company's U.S. business returned to the black and international profit nearly tripled.

    Marathon's Profit Climbs 62% 2010

  • The segment's operating income nearly sextupled year-to-year and was up 90% on-quarter as equipment utilization surpassed peak 2008 levels.

    Halliburton Net Jumps 83% on North American Business 2010

  • Even after the recent plunge, the stock price has more than sextupled since the company became independent.

    Up in the Heir at Lehman 2008

  • Indeed, according to a study published in Science in 2006, the number of wildfires since 1986 has quadrupled, and the area of forest burned has sextupled (when compared to the period between 1970 and 1986) -- the direct result, the authors say, of a spate of longer, warmer summers.

    Jeremy Jacquot: Are Southern California's Wildfires a Harbinger of Worst Things to Come Under Climate Change? 2008

  • Despite a huge increase in imports from Chinathey sextupled as a percentage of U.S. imports between 1990 and 2006Chinese products are still concentrated mostly in lower-price markets.

    Daimnation!: Why Wal-Mart is a Good Thing... 2008

  • But given the sextupled value of the NYSE since last year, market timing has taken on a whole new meaning.

    There's No Time Like the Right Time 2007

  • Chinese stocks have nearly sextupled in value in just two years and set yet another record yesterday, when the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index catapulted above 6000 for the first time.

    China's Stock Surge Raises 2007

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