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amplify

[am-pluh-fahy] / ˈæm pləˌfaɪ /


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Most recently, in March, her BMW was stolen from outside her home using an antenna to amplify the signal from the key fob inside her house.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

“As a global pop superstar, Rosé will amplify the spirit of the evening with her incomparable talent and style.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

The key to showing humility is to play down the compliment rather than amplify it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

"To overcome this limitation, we introduced a terahertz split-ring resonator. Such a dark cavity can reshape the electromagnetic environment and substantially amplify vacuum fluctuations."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

The magic horn had become so attuned to her emotions it could amplify her anger, love or grief and spew forth its bounty accordingly.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

His intentional balance of silence and audio amplifies one of the movie’s most famous moments, Adenoid Hynkel’s gibberish speech, into a bombastic, hilarious aural onslaught.

From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026

The Rumbler interacts with a standard police siren, which generates around 110 to 120 decibels, and amplifies that sound through its speakers in eight-second intervals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

“Workers see the headlines, hear about their friends. Crucially they hear about workers having incredibly hard times getting back into jobs, which amplifies the risk of being laid off,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

Perps, which never expire and let traders pile on leverage that amplifies their potential gains and losses, have already made their mark in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

Bobby Ryan amplifies her point: “We’re not typical theater kids, and we don’t want to be typical theater kids.”

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

Born from Wolf’s real frustrations in a long-term relationship, the melodramatic hit bubbles with acoustic guitar and low, vocal flip-laced mourning to amplified crescendos, replete with punchy garage-rock drumming and Wolf’s howling chorus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Tightening financial conditions have amplified concerns about the fiscal health of advanced economies such as the U.S., sending bond yields to multiyear highs—one of the clearest alarm bells markets can ring.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Anthropic has amplified the theological aspects of this debate.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Xiang believes two forces have amplified this anxiety - the property market and the higher education system.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Although prosecutors, as a group, have the greatest power in the criminal justice system, police have the greatest discretion—discretion that is amplified in drug-law enforcement.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

“Any media outlet blindly amplifying Kimmel’s egocentric delusion should insist on proof. Of which they will find none.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Now the early AI era is amplifying the importance of that information.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

She will be remembered for amplifying the voices of women in a way that mainstream media at the time either could not, or would not.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

“AI is amplifying the value of our entire platform,” Robin Washington, chief financial and chief operating officer at Salesforce, told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

The entire greenhouse hummed with power, amplifying his until he was a one-man climate-change phenomenon.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda




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