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No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. (1947, Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, Section 1)

I've done with my tirade. The world was gone; / The twice two thousand, for whom earth was made, / Were vanish'd to be what they call alone

1824, Lord Byron, “Canto the Thirteenth”, in Don Juan

He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

Santa Claus is coming to town / He’s making a list, / And checking it twice, / He’s gonna find out who’s naughty or nice / Santa Claus is coming to town

1934, J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie, “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”

Malay is the lingua franca of several Southeast Asia countries and has been simplified by its use as a second language by non-native speakers. For example, the Malay plural is formed by repeating a word twice – buku means book and buku-buku means books.

2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2022

Thus it appears that if the machine is turning twice as slow as before, there is more than twice the former quantity in the rising buckets; and more will be raised in a minute by the same expenditure of power.

1826, John Nicholson, The Operative Mechanic, and British Machinist: Being a Practical Display of the Manufactories and Mechanical Arts of the United Kingdom, volume 1, H.C. Carey & I. Lea, page 78

You can't get anything thinner than a spring shad, unless you take a couple of them, when, of course, they will be twice as thin.

1896, Livingston Stone, Domesticated Trout: How to Breed and Grow Them, 4th edition, page 304

This was eventually absorbed in the enlarged Victoria Station which was brought into use at the end of March, 1884, providing twice as much platform accommodation as the old one.

1957 October 28, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 731

Both men and women with higher qualifications were twice as less likely to be unemployed than their less qualified counterparts.

1995, Louise Corti, Heather Laurie, Shirley Dex, Highly Qualified Women, Great Britain. Dept. of Employment, page 18