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magnify

[mag-nuh-fahy] / ˈmæg nəˌfaɪ /




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The researchers say dietary sugar may magnify the microbiome disruption caused by antibiotics because potentially harmful bacteria that survive treatment may be able to use those sugars to expand.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

"There is nothing that blood testing can do that would magically take those worries away - it would only potentially magnify them," Jones said.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

This borrowing, known as fund-level debt, can magnify investors’ losses on bad bets and could even create risks for banks in a severe downturn, industry analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

"The Statue of Liberty will be revealed to the public as it has never been seen before, in a staging designed to magnify its symbolic and emotional power," the consulate said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

She blinks up at us through glasses that magnify her eyes.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

When house prices rise, that borrowing magnifies the return on the money owners invested themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Borrowed money magnifies returns when share prices are rising as smaller investors are able to gain far more exposure to the upside, but when share prices fall that leverage exacerbates losses.

From MarketWatch ● May 21, 2026

When a massive object such as a neutron star passes in front of a more distant star, its gravity bends and magnifies the background star's light.

From Science Daily ● May 15, 2026

The prospect of fame magnifies pathologies that have been intensifying over time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025

Some of them were very tall; many were dressed in white; and all had a sweeping amplitude of array that seemed to magnify their persons as a mist magnifies the moon.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

While this weather system is not expected to be as severe as Storm Boelo, its impacts could be magnified coming so soon after the previous storm.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Dressed in a camouflage bomber jacket, his eyes continued to linger on the magnified view of the downtown skyline as he spoke.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

Conversely, declines in valuations of mortgage-backed securities are magnified when interest rates are rising.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

If rates keep going up and markets go down, the same leverage that magnified wealth on the way up will destroy it on the way down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Over the breadth of an ocean the smallest miscalculations would become magnified so that ships often missed Bermuda-sized targets by dismaying margins.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Now, physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have brought that same principle to electron microscopy, a technology capable of magnifying objects roughly 10,000 times more than conventional light microscopes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

Trivial Pursuit comes with a magnifying card since the type is so small.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

"I think we're going to be the first ones under the magnifying glass being looked at," Acaster said over suspicions one will be a traitor.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

When you look at films like that under a magnifying glass, they tend to fall apart.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

“A magnifying glass and a good hiding place.”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin


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