In this paper, assuming the initial-boundary datum belonging to suitable Sobolev and Lebesgue spaces, we prove the global existence result for a (possibly sign changing) weak solution to the Cauchy–Dirichlet problem for doubly nonlinear parabolic equations of the form $$\begin{aligned} \partial _t\left( |u|^{q-1}u\right) -\Delta _p u=0\quad \text {in}\,\,\,\Omega _\infty , \end{aligned}$$
∂
t
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u
|
q
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1
u
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Δ
p
u
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0
in
Ω
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where $$p>1$$
p
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1
and $$q>0$$
q
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0
. This is a fair improvement of the preceding result by authors (Nonlinear Anal 175C :157–172, 2018). The key tools we employ are energy estimates for approximate equations of Rothe type and the integral strong convergence of gradients of approximate solutions.