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amplifier

[am-pluh-fahy-er] / ˈæm pləˌfaɪ ər /
NOUN
speaker
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A few paces away, Jerry Garcia’s “Budman” amplifier, once part of the Grateful Dead’s three-story high “Wall of Sound,” perched atop a podium.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026

In principle, such a plasma can act as an energy amplifier, producing far more energy than it takes to create and sustain it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

For many people with chronic pain, the metaphors that scientists use—like the amplifier, making a whisper sound like a scream—don’t tell the whole story.

From Slate • Sep. 15, 2025

He persuaded his dad to buy him a microphone and an amplifier and, together with a friend Terry 'Geezer' Butler, formed a band called Rare Breed - which lasted for just two performances.

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2025

Across the room his stereo amplifier was on, die radio needle jumping.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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