magnify
Example Sentences
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But to do that and have everything you say, your mistakes magnified, seems overwhelming.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s a year-round phenomenon, but it gets magnified around the holidays when we attend more social gatherings.
"As car usage grows and the city expands, it magnifies a lot of the challenges we face and increases the number of times we have to invest just to stand still."
From BBC
The hit from First Brands had a magnified effect on Great Elm stock because the company has borrowed about $200 million to boost returns.
According to Ford’s biographer Richard Norton Smith, they feared their protective resources might be stretched dangerously thin in such a downtrodden place—a concern no doubt magnified by two earlier assassination attempts against the president.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.