magnify
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"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 stock also is destined to join the exchange-traded funds that use options to magnify daily stock price changes.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
Treacy said SpaceX’s small free float — the number of shares freely available to trade by the public — was likely helping magnify the stock’s gains.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026
Her knowledge of the buck’s imminent death seemed to magnify everything: the beauty of the animal, the smell of the forest, the beating of her heart.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
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Leverage works great when asset prices rise, but concentrating a large share of your wealth in a single, illiquid, undiversified asset also magnifies downside risk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The S&P 500 is weighted by market capitalization, which magnifies the effect of this year’s gains for some of its largest companies.
From MarketWatch ● May 20, 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 Tristan Project” — created by video artist Bill Viola, director Peter Sellars and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney in 2004 — magnifies the rituals of life and death.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
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
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Conversely, declines in valuations of mortgage-backed securities are magnified when interest rates are rising.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
At Syracuse, that volatility has been magnified by the decline in its sports programs—historically an important factor in drawing students to a campus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
The impact is magnified, he argues, because Inverclyde has a population of just 78,000, having fallen by a fifth in the past 50 years.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
“What’s difficult for the folks in Big Sur, I think today, are the changing dynamics that people are experiencing all over California that are magnified here,” said Supervisor Kate Daniels, who represents the region.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
His blue eyes were genial and closely set, with one magnified by a golden monocle.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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"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
You can tap the speech bubble icon to type a question, or the magnifying glass to search for the object on Google and other platforms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
When you look at films like that under a magnifying glass, they tend to fall apart.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
But on the edge of town, engineers peer through giant magnifying glasses while robotic arms manipulate sheets of copper to develop components used in some of the world's most advanced AI systems.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
We went out and he looked at the plant through the magnifying glass for a long time.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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