sevenfold
adjective
sev·en·fold
ˈse-vən-ˌfōld 
ˈse-bᵊm-
1
: having seven units or members
2
: being seven times as great or as many
sevenfold
adverb
Examples of sevenfold in a Sentence
There has been a sevenfold increase in membership in the past year.
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Last year, five governors led by Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro began pushing back against power prices set by the mid-Atlantic grid operator, PJM Interconnection, after that amount spiked nearly sevenfold.
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Marc Levy, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2025
Sales of zero-emission vehicles in Oregon are surging dramatically, up sevenfold since 2015.
—oregonlive, 4 June 2023
The ruling marks the latest development in the Biden administration’s attempt to adopt a more than sevenfold increase in a metric called the social cost of carbon, which assigns a dollar value to the harm caused by greenhouse-gas emissions.
—Katy Stech Ferek, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
Nursing homes reported a near-record of about 32,000 COVID-19 cases among residents in the week ending Jan. 9, an almost sevenfold increase from a month earlier, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
—Celina Tebor, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2022
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Marc Levy, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2025
Sales of zero-emission vehicles in Oregon are surging dramatically, up sevenfold since 2015.
—oregonlive, 4 June 2023
The ruling marks the latest development in the Biden administration’s attempt to adopt a more than sevenfold increase in a metric called the social cost of carbon, which assigns a dollar value to the harm caused by greenhouse-gas emissions.
—Katy Stech Ferek, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
Nursing homes reported a near-record of about 32,000 COVID-19 cases among residents in the week ending Jan. 9, an almost sevenfold increase from a month earlier, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
—Celina Tebor, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2022
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“Sevenfold.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sevenfold. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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