twice
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- adverb
- /twaɪs/
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dos veces
- You can see the castle clearly twice a day, at dawn and again at twilight.
- twice as
- twice as much
- twice the size
And they have us go in twice and come out.
- And they have us go in twice and come out.
- Liz sleeps with the big head twice in one night.
- Don't ask me how I got in there twice undercover.
- He will say the same thing twice and you're like, whoa.
- That puts them at about a PEG ratio twice as high as Tesla.
- And he charmed Piers Morgan twice to beat him at chess, right.
- Then you could be twice as productive in the same hour.
- This time it's another of our twice yearly channel updates.
Examples
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And this happens about twice a week, OK.
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I played it maybe twice in the last month.
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And they have us go in twice and come out.
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No, he turned it down twice, which is fine.
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I saw it twice and I loved it.
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'Yes, we receive bank statements on each company twice a day.'
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They had me in there seven hours, twice as long as anybody else.
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We ran this experimental course twice, over the course of two semesters during the 2009 academic year.
Academic text (2011) -
He's been up for parole twice, denied both times.
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I watched my favorite movie twice last weekend because I enjoyed it so much.
Synonyms
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Twice as much or as many
Idioms
- Informal
Careful about doing something again because of a bad past experience
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Etymology
Twice comes from an old English root meaning 'two', the same idea you see in two and twin, so twice simply means 'two times'.