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  • verb Alternative form of double down.

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  • The media have had a good time lately with Michele Bachmann's double-down gaffe about how the Founding Fathers, including an eight-year-old John Quincy Adams, "worked tirelessly" to end slavery, despite writing it into the Constitution and owning slaves themselves.

    Spencer Critchley: No Mistake: Why Michele Bachmann Is Trying to Rewrite History Spencer Critchley 2011

  • The media have had a good time lately with Michele Bachmann's double-down gaffe about how the Founding Fathers, including an eight-year-old John Quincy Adams, "worked tirelessly" to end slavery, despite writing it into the Constitution and owning slaves themselves.

    Spencer Critchley: No Mistake: Why Michele Bachmann Is Trying to Rewrite History Spencer Critchley 2011

  • But no, the Democrats have decided to double-down, hoping for better results than history dictates.

    Paragraph of the Day, post-Christmas hangover edition. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

  • The media have had a good time lately with Michele Bachmann's double-down gaffe about how the Founding Fathers, including an eight-year-old John Quincy Adams, "worked tirelessly" to end slavery, despite writing it into the Constitution and owning slaves themselves.

    Spencer Critchley: No Mistake: Why Michele Bachmann Is Trying to Rewrite History Spencer Critchley 2011

  • The media have had a good time lately with Michele Bachmann's double-down gaffe about how the Founding Fathers, including an eight-year-old John Quincy Adams, "worked tirelessly" to end slavery, despite writing it into the Constitution and owning slaves themselves.

    Spencer Critchley: No Mistake: Why Michele Bachmann Is Trying to Rewrite History Spencer Critchley 2011

  • I would take this assassination program to mean that the West is entirely uninterested in any form of negotiation not that I, the regime official, has ever been much interested in dialogue with the West and that I should double-down and cross the nuclear threshold as fast as humanly possible.

    MJ Rosenberg: Assassination in Tehran: An Act Of War? MJ Rosenberg 2012

  • After moving its apparel office to New York in 2009 with great fanfare about fashion, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is packing up the operation and moving it back to its Bentonville, Ark., headquarters, where it will double-down on basics.

    From the Big Apple Back to Bentonville Andria Cheng 2011

  • Perhaps the prospect of fighting in Afghanistan for years to come with borrowed money is so unattractive that some who were ready to double-down in the war will instead pronounce the Afghan rehab "good enough."

    Ray Suarez: War Without End. Amen? Ray Suarez 2011

  • I would take this assassination program to mean that the West is entirely uninterested in any form of negotiation not that I, the regime official, has ever been much interested in dialogue with the West and that I should double-down and cross the nuclear threshold as fast as humanly possible.

    MJ Rosenberg: Assassination in Tehran: An Act Of War? MJ Rosenberg 2012

  • The media have had a good time lately with Michele Bachmann's double-down gaffe about how the Founding Fathers, including an eight-year-old John Quincy Adams, "worked tirelessly" to end slavery, despite writing it into the Constitution and owning slaves themselves.

    Spencer Critchley: No Mistake: Why Michele Bachmann Is Trying to Rewrite History Spencer Critchley 2011

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