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double tragedy

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meanings of doubleand tragedy


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double
adjective
uk /ˈdʌb.əl/ us /ˈdʌb.əl/
twice the size, amount, price, etc., or consisting of two similar ...
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tragedy
noun[C or U]
uk /ˈtrædʒ.ə.di/ us /ˈtrædʒ.ə.di/
a very sad event or situation, especially one involving death ...
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Examples of double tragedy


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That is a doubletragedy for them, but it has to be taken into account.
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Loneliness is a curse, but when to loneliness is added poverty, it becomes a doubletragedy.
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The doubletragedy is that all these sacrifices have been in vain.
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For a gifted student, this was a doubletragedy.
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The doubletragedy is that the population of the two countries is poverty-stricken and suffering in so many ways.
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If we are to avoid the doubletragedy of trade recession and uncontrolled inflation, we must control the imports of foreign goods.
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It is a doubletragedy, for although the factory went on short-time working earlier in the year it went back to full-time working about a month ago.
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That is a doubletragedy to be visited on that family, and they should have nothing but sympathy.
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It is a doubletragedy if genuine, peaceful football supporters who have done nothing wrong have been caught up in the problem.
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Every act of mindless brutality produces a doubletragedy—the loss of a life, and the distraught family that that person leaves behind.
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Unemployment, by itself, is a tragedy; but when to unemployment we also add disablement, it is, indeed, a doubletragedy.
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We suffer the doubletragedy of young people leaving school with little or no prospect of work and long-term male unemployment.
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