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Housing affordability continues to be a major challenge, as buyers are getting a double whammy : rising mortgage rates and sustained price increases, some who had previously qualified at a 3 % mortgage rate are no longer able to buy at the 4 % rate. – Lawrence Yun	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's a double whammy. At the same time the prefrontal cortex is getting weaker and more primitive, the brain circuits that generate emotion like fear are getting stronger, you start seeing the world as harmful even when it's not. – Amy Arnsten	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Getting vaccinated is one of the best ways to avoid the double whammy. – Mark Rosenberg	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Not only is she declining to prosecute a record number of cases that have already been filed, she is just filing less cases, so that’s a double whammy. – Jane Dueker	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
So unfortunately we have a situation where it's sort of a double whammy, obviously, the African American community has suffered from racism for a very, very long period of time. – Robert Redfield	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I'm dealing with such a double whammy as a business owner, i have been doing everything I know how to finally reopen the stores safely for everyone, but now I face an entirely new situation. – Beth Aberg	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's kind of a double whammy of starting to forget and losing that kind of academic mindset of being out of school, and missing out on a couple of important months of instruction, come fall... teachers may have students in their classrooms who are grade levels apart in their learning. – Megan Kuhfeld	Found on CNN 3 years ago
If risk appetite collapses due to fears of worsening Middle East tensions in the wake of any retaliation to the...attacks, some emerging markets could face a double whammy of pressures. – Mitul Kotecha	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's a double whammy and people don't know where to go for support. – Zoe Fortune	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This really reinforced the idea that while its bad to eat junk food, eating high-calorie foods under stress is a double whammy that drives obesity. – Professor Herzog	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The thing about a spouse is that your spouse is typically your major source of support. If your spouse becomes your major source of stress, you don’t have a major source of support, and now it’s been replaced by a major source of stress, so you now have a double whammy. – Janice Kiecolt-Glaser	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The double whammy was the fact that at the same time, you had President Obama rolling out the red carpet for over 100,000 unaccompanied minors from Central and South America, many of us warned that this was a recipe for disaster – to have 15- or 16-year-old young men without parents to be resettled in this area. MS-13 became their family. – Steve Levy	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
This is like a double whammy in many ways, when you don't have anything to begin with, your ability to stretch and be flexible is very limited. – Patsy Nakell	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Alcoholic beverages do a double whammy on your sex life by lowering your testosterone and your sexual functioning. – Michael Hirt	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We're seeing a double whammy of yen strength combined with Japan Inc's tendency to give very conservative guidance, so you have to acknowledge some uncertainty over how much capex will actually be impacted by the stronger yen because we're unsure just how much exaggeration we're seeing in dim earnings forecasts. – Stefan Worrall	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
As soon as I got on the straight, basically I could feel the car start to wobble and then I looked in the mirror and the tyre went, with the safety car, that put us even further back so that was like a double whammy which felt like getting punched in the stomach by a heavyweight. – Red Bull	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
That transition to a new team and expecting someone to perform at a really high level early on into a new term is a bit of a double whammy, it's not a four-month goal. Our ambition with him is longer term. – Dave Brailsford	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We had a double whammy of warming water temperatures. – George Burgess	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Andy doesn't break and it's a double whammy because he gets broken straight away in the next game. – Robbie Koenig	Found on CNN 8 years ago
If you're a young woman, its a double whammy. – David Newman-Toker	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
This is a lot of negative news, that is for sure ... We have a double-whammy happening, meaning copper prices continue to soften, and production targets are really at risk because of Glencore news, you could see a double-digit fiscal deficit very easily this year. – Kevin Daly	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It sounds really cool. You know, 'Let's just round them all up and send them back,' people who say that have no idea what that would entail in terms of our legal system, the costs - forget about it. Plus, where you gonna send them? It's just a double whammy. – Ben Carson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It sounds really cool, you know, 'Let's just round them all up and send them back,' people who say that have no idea what that would entail in terms of our legal system, the costs - forget about it. Plus, where you gonna send them? It's just a double whammy. – Ben Carson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
In many ways it's a double whammy in terms of the tumor itself. – Sagar Lonial	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

Housing affordability continues to be a major challenge, as buyers are getting a double whammy : rising mortgage rates and sustained price increases, some who had previously qualified at a 3 % mortgage rate are no longer able to buy at the 4 % rate.

– Lawrence Yun

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's a double whammy. At the same time the prefrontal cortex is getting weaker and more primitive, the brain circuits that generate emotion like fear are getting stronger, you start seeing the world as harmful even when it's not.

– Amy Arnsten

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Getting vaccinated is one of the best ways to avoid the double whammy.

– Mark Rosenberg

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Not only is she declining to prosecute a record number of cases that have already been filed, she is just filing less cases, so that’s a double whammy.

– Jane Dueker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

So unfortunately we have a situation where it's sort of a double whammy, obviously, the African American community has suffered from racism for a very, very long period of time.

– Robert Redfield

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I'm dealing with such a double whammy as a business owner, i have been doing everything I know how to finally reopen the stores safely for everyone, but now I face an entirely new situation.

– Beth Aberg

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It's kind of a double whammy of starting to forget and losing that kind of academic mindset of being out of school, and missing out on a couple of important months of instruction, come fall... teachers may have students in their classrooms who are grade levels apart in their learning.

– Megan Kuhfeld

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If risk appetite collapses due to fears of worsening Middle East tensions in the wake of any retaliation to the...attacks, some emerging markets could face a double whammy of pressures.

– Mitul Kotecha

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's a double whammy and people don't know where to go for support.

– Zoe Fortune

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This really reinforced the idea that while its bad to eat junk food, eating high-calorie foods under stress is a double whammy that drives obesity.

– Professor Herzog

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The thing about a spouse is that your spouse is typically your major source of support. If your spouse becomes your major source of stress, you don’t have a major source of support, and now it’s been replaced by a major source of stress, so you now have a double whammy.

– Janice Kiecolt-Glaser

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The double whammy was the fact that at the same time, you had President Obama rolling out the red carpet for over 100,000 unaccompanied minors from Central and South America, many of us warned that this was a recipe for disaster – to have 15- or 16-year-old young men without parents to be resettled in this area. MS-13 became their family.

– Steve Levy

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

This is like a double whammy in many ways, when you don't have anything to begin with, your ability to stretch and be flexible is very limited.

– Patsy Nakell

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Alcoholic beverages do a double whammy on your sex life by lowering your testosterone and your sexual functioning.

– Michael Hirt

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We're seeing a double whammy of yen strength combined with Japan Inc's tendency to give very conservative guidance, so you have to acknowledge some uncertainty over how much capex will actually be impacted by the stronger yen because we're unsure just how much exaggeration we're seeing in dim earnings forecasts.

– Stefan Worrall

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

As soon as I got on the straight, basically I could feel the car start to wobble and then I looked in the mirror and the tyre went, with the safety car, that put us even further back so that was like a double whammy which felt like getting punched in the stomach by a heavyweight.

– Red Bull

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

That transition to a new team and expecting someone to perform at a really high level early on into a new term is a bit of a double whammy, it's not a four-month goal. Our ambition with him is longer term.

– Dave Brailsford

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We had a double whammy of warming water temperatures.

– George Burgess

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Andy doesn't break and it's a double whammy because he gets broken straight away in the next game.

– Robbie Koenig

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If you're a young woman, its a double whammy.

– David Newman-Toker

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

This is a lot of negative news, that is for sure ... We have a double-whammy happening, meaning copper prices continue to soften, and production targets are really at risk because of Glencore news, you could see a double-digit fiscal deficit very easily this year.

– Kevin Daly

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It sounds really cool. You know, 'Let's just round them all up and send them back,' people who say that have no idea what that would entail in terms of our legal system, the costs - forget about it. Plus, where you gonna send them? It's just a double whammy.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It sounds really cool, you know, 'Let's just round them all up and send them back,' people who say that have no idea what that would entail in terms of our legal system, the costs - forget about it. Plus, where you gonna send them? It's just a double whammy.

– Ben Carson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In many ways it's a double whammy in terms of the tumor itself.

– Sagar Lonial

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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