Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb In three ways.
- adverb To a triple degree.
- adverb Three times.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a triple or threefold manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a triple manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb At three times the severity or degree.
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Examples
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Quoting her post while indicating that in her case, you would cooperate to the full extent the law would request does read as a threat in that sense, and triply so because of the previous paragraph.
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Our men and women in uniform -- our wounded warriors and the families of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice -- are doubly or even triply hit by this change.
Nancy Altman: Message to the 99%: Help Stop the 1% From Using the Super Committee to Rob the American People Nancy Altman 2011
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It was triply secured: the correctly entered code, fingerprint identification, and a retinal scan were all required.
Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011
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And this applies triply to substantive policy issues.
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This is triply sad because Mr. Obama, just this week, was handed a heaven-sent opportunity, a gift beyond his deserts.
If Only Obama Had Been This Guy Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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So I was triply delighted to find out about a game bundle put together by indie game developers.
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Lincoln boasted that the combination of emancipation and black recruitment “works doubly—weakening the enemy and strengthening us,” but “triply” might have been more accurate.6
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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Quoting her post while indicating that in her case, you would cooperate to the full extent the law would request does read as a threat in that sense, and triply so because of the previous paragraph.
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So I was triply delighted to find out about a game bundle put together by indie game developers.
Indie game bundle: pay what you want! — Fusion Despatches 2010
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It was triply secured: the correctly entered code, fingerprint identification, and a retinal scan were all required.
Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011
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