Example Sentences

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Magnifying their cultural influence was the fact that, unlike Black migrants, White migrants from the South were not subject to housing segregation.

From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2023

Magnifying these social and cultural shifts, drag has moved in the opposite direction — from the margins to the mainstream.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2023

Magnifying those disparities are two crosscutting factors: the long-term health complications from Covid-19, and a lagging return for workers without college degrees.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2022

Magnifying that misery was a record-busting Western heat wave, when temperatures soared well above 100 degrees in late June and early July, including a record 113 degrees June 30 in Wenatchee, Wash.

From Scientific American • Oct. 25, 2021

Magnifying glasses were known to the ancient Greeks, and spectacles were in use from the thirteenth century.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton