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With the cold weather and the high cost of heating fuel, homeowners were hit with a double whammy this winter.
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Next weekend portends a double whammy of Lilo & Stitch and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.
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Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 18 May 2025
There’s a double whammy of macro and micro twists within close succession of each other.
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2025
Hotelier Jim Hollinger returns to the White Lotus and insults Rick’s mother, Rick backslides into his plan for revenge and shoots Jim and Jim’s bodyguards, then shoulders a double whammy of calamity: Jim was Rick’s father all along, and Chelsea’s been killed in the shootout.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
So companies have the double whammy of explaining that, and then also being very transparent about the fact that the prices are gonna go up.
—Nyse, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2025
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Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 18 May 2025
There’s a double whammy of macro and micro twists within close succession of each other.
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2025
Hotelier Jim Hollinger returns to the White Lotus and insults Rick’s mother, Rick backslides into his plan for revenge and shoots Jim and Jim’s bodyguards, then shoulders a double whammy of calamity: Jim was Rick’s father all along, and Chelsea’s been killed in the shootout.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
So companies have the double whammy of explaining that, and then also being very transparent about the fact that the prices are gonna go up.
—Nyse, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2025
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“Double whammy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/double%20whammy. Accessed 8 Jun. 2025.
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