amplification
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Even so, sonic adventurers, beginning with Leopold Stokowski in the 1930s, experimented with amplification in an obsessive, seemingly quixotic effort to locate a mythical sonic grail on the Cahuenga Pass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
Writing in the journal Nature, the team showed that wave amplification can be achieved using a device that simulates extreme rotation without physically spinning.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
The engine roar, so critical to Ferraris, can be provided by what the company calls an “external amplification system” that pumps the natural sound of the electric axles out to the street.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
Utah-based chain Swig — with some amplification from social media —helped make dirty soda a hit, as a story from Eater noted last year.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 29, 2026
Used colloquially, it signals something innocent: an amplification of joy.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing amplification
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