How To Use Doubleton In A Sentence
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Joe Grue successfully ran the jack of hearts, crossed to the ace of hearts, and led the king of spades in the hope of felling a doubleton jack in the South hand.
Netherlands win at home
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West led top of her doubleton club, East playing out three top clubs.
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The distribution of singletons, doubletons (low frequency variants), and other (high frequency) variants among the continents was investigated.
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A quatraton is inferred either from the presence of two singletons, no doubletons, and no tripletons or from the presence of no singletons, one doubleton, and no tripletons.
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Additionally, all singleton, doubleton, and tripleton sites (variants that appear, respectively, only once, twice, or three times in the total sample) were verified by reamplification and resequencing.
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The appearance of East's doubleton queen was a welcome sight, and all that remained was to resolve the position of the queen of clubs.
The agonies of decision
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The difference in sign of Tajima's D for each locus separately suggests a slight excess of singletons and doubletons in the North Carolina population, although this is not significant.
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By taking the ace and 'cashing' the king, she was showing a doubleton.
Bridge
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In case East has a doubleton honor or two honors, Cy should play dummy's ace at Trick One.
Bridge
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There were two ways in which this might be achieved: South might have a doubleton, or he might have the singleton king.
Tight finish in the English Premier League
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Admittedly this is not an easy thing to do holding just a doubleton, especially v a slam.
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Declarer has to guess whether this is a doubleton or a singleton.
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If declarer believed that Sementa had chosen the unorthodox lead of a low card from a doubleton, he could now have made the contract easily because he had a tenace in diamonds – the eight would force West to cover with the nine, and declarer's six would beat West's three.
Two unorthodox leads
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Can East work out whether West has led from a singleton or a doubleton?
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His play of ace and another club seemed indicative of just a doubleton.
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We excluded singletons and doubletons and compared the following seven sites in order: M1046, M1312, M1414, M4325, A2144, A3203, and A3416.
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In a trump contract, the play of a higher card followed by a lower one may be made from a doubleton, indicating a desire to ruff, rather than just from a holding including a high card.
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If the hearts had split 3-3 (or if a defender had held K-Q doubleton), South could have drawn trumps and led to the king of diamonds to take the good hearts.
Bridge
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That might be a singleton or it might be from queen-10 doubleton.
Fourth time lucky
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Of these, 75 are singletons, two are doubletons, and one is present in three sequences.
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When instead he felled North's doubleton ace, he could not establish the spade suit and eventually finished two down.
Netherlands win at home
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West signaled with the ten to show a doubleton, and East let dummy's king and queen win.
Bridge
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Initially, the differential sites are classified into singletons, doubletons, or tripletons for each of the six OTUs separately or for the various combinations of the OTUs, as described in Materials and Methods.
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When leading from a doubleton you must lead top.
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If declarer believed that Sementa had chosen the unorthodox lead of a low card from a doubleton, he could now have made the contract easily because he had a tenace in diamonds – the eight would force West to cover with the nine, and declarer's six would beat West's three.
Two unorthodox leads
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South would pass with just a doubleton.
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Why can't West be leading top of a doubleton club?
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