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Example Sentences

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To amp up tax-loss harvesting, consider a tax-optimized separately managed account.

From Barron's • Mar. 21, 2026

"Electric guitar, speakers, guitar pedals, a guitar amp, a trumpet, some sort of bongos, some pads for my computer music equipment," he recalls buying.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026

You can also infuse your espresso with star anise to make a non-alcoholic Sambuca or amp up the sweetness by scraping in a whole vanilla bean.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2026

Heaps of old-fashioned oats, raw coconut flakes, chopped cashews and pumpkin seeds amp up the fiber quotient.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

He comes in with a vintage-looking electric guitar—I don’t know brands, but it looks like something the Beatles would have had—and plugs it into his amp on a chair before we file in.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini