magnify
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Starting a business has always carried risks, and those magnify at older ages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
A single supermassive black hole can dramatically magnify a background star, but only when the alignment is almost perfect.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026
Troop commitments in the Middle East magnify the importance of Tokyo’s increasing military muscle in Asia.
From Barron's ● May 14, 2026
Underscoring the popularity of the fund’s strategy amid the artificial-intelligence boom, another firm recently filed to launch a leveraged ETF designed to magnify the Roundhill Memory ETF’s daily performance.
From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026
Mr. Lawson wears rectangular black-framed glasses that magnify his gray eyes.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
In these events, the gravity of a foreground star and any accompanying planets magnifies the light of a more distant background star, briefly making it appear brighter.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 1, 2026
When liquidity tightens, silver does not simply follow gold — it magnifies the move.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 30, 2026
As in all sports novels, climbing offers the characters a framework for living, and Mr. Tallent magnifies every aspect of its metaphoric potential.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 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
Leveraged ETFs that use derivatives to make magnified bets on stocks have also been booming.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
When experiencing either emotion, everything — be it a piece of news, the prick of a finger, a conversation with a loved one living thousands of miles away — is magnified.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026
It adds "the failures were glaring... and magnified in our angry, divided world".
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
And everything is magnified when you’re in a crowd.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
There was silence in which every bubble and gurgle of the surrounding potions seemed magnified tenfold.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
Those natural "cosmic magnifying glasses" could provide some of the strongest evidence yet for this new picture of the invisible universe.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
But held under a magnifying glass and removed from the film’s fervent fanfare, those arguments fall apart.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026
History isn’t a crystal ball, but certain historical moments become magnifying glasses, highlighting truths today’s political passions obscure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
Do you really think that foreign governments are at this point, with a magnifying glass, looking at our markets and thinking something might be about to happen?
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2026
I see my life up to New Year’s 1944 as if I were looking through a powerful magnifying glass.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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