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In such an environment, the risks of any disaster are magnified: When people live so close together, a fire can spread quickly and affect thousands at once.

Investors on both Wall Street and Main Street have borrowed heavily to magnify market bets.

However, Penelope felt him watching her with a strange intensity, rendered all the stranger by the way his thick glasses magnified his eyes.

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In Janus materials, the strong coupling between layers magnifies this effect, allowing even extremely small forces to produce measurable strain.

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And secondly, on emphasis, they insist they hadn't expected so much talk about Wes Streeting, which was then massively magnified by all those interviews he was booked in to do on Wednesday morning.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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