magnify

Example Sentences

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Fire, which is this year’s element, tends to magnify the animal’s personality.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

Much of that money will be squandered on capabilities that do more to magnify our weaknesses than to sharpen our strengths.

From Slate • Dec. 19, 2025

His actively managed ETF seeks out higher-income preferreds and deploys leverage, which boosts yields but could also magnify any losses.

From Barron's • Dec. 4, 2025

A zoom feature gives patients the ability to magnify letters.

From Science Daily • Oct. 20, 2025

Unable to reach him by phone and confined at home because Ernest had the car, she let her imagination magnify “all the horror stories about what excess radiation might do to the men.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik