multiplying

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• You might have heard that to get a dog’s “biological” age, just multiply its age in years by seven.

• When given food, even the most ancient microbes revived themselves and multiplied, researchers report July 28 in Nature Communications.

• Divide this number by the total number of people asked and multiply it by 100 to get a percentage score.

• For pensions to work, money paid by governments and employees is invested, and the stock market multiplies the dollars to pay for pension checks guaranteed to workers in retirement.

• As humans clear swaths of forest for agriculture or roads, forest edges multiply, increasing spillover risk from once-isolated wildlife to humans and livestock.

• Idiocies multiply in direct proportion to the accumulating legal rigidities.

• A flamboyant, multi-titled, multiply married royal to remember, the Duchess of Alba died Thursday at the age of 88.

• Multiply that number by 365 and you get more than 30,000 families who suffer from gun violence over the course of a year.

• As the assemblies multiply and spread, the disparity between communities has thrown up a series of issues.

• And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

• And thou didst multiply riddles in parables: thy name went abroad to the islands far off, and thou wast beloved in thy peace.

• And I will save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for corn, and will multiply it, and will lay no famine upon you.

• It would be easy to multiply individual cases supporting the same general principles.

• It was still summer, and the gnats had begun to multiply to a prodigious and alarming extent.