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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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This double whammy could, in theory, make recovery from the virus more difficult, Hector Bonilla, MD, a clinical associate professor of medicine-infectious disease at Stanford University and co-director of Stanford’s Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome Clinic, tells SELF.
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Julie Stewart, SELF, 5 Sep. 2024
Thus, in recent months, consumers have endured a double whammy of high inflation and elevated interest rates, making homes, cars and other consumer goods less affordable.
—Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024
This year's cicada emergence was a double whammy of insects, with two groups of periodical cicadas that only come out of the ground every 13 or 17 years making a simultaneous appearance.
—Li Cohen, CBS News, 15 Aug. 2024
Social scientists say the group of people born between the late 1990s and the early 2010s, a cohort who grew up communicating digitally, is more socially isolated than their elders, thanks to a double whammy of the COVID-19 pandemic and social media supplanting in-person connection.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
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Julie Stewart, SELF, 5 Sep. 2024
Thus, in recent months, consumers have endured a double whammy of high inflation and elevated interest rates, making homes, cars and other consumer goods less affordable.
—Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024
This year's cicada emergence was a double whammy of insects, with two groups of periodical cicadas that only come out of the ground every 13 or 17 years making a simultaneous appearance.
—Li Cohen, CBS News, 15 Aug. 2024
Social scientists say the group of people born between the late 1990s and the early 2010s, a cohort who grew up communicating digitally, is more socially isolated than their elders, thanks to a double whammy of the COVID-19 pandemic and social media supplanting in-person connection.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
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