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magnifying glass
noun as in hand-held lens
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At the Bozart family apartment, Jimmy’s dad studied the tiny piece of film through a magnifying glass.
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One of the pieces featured a ladder with a magnifying glass at the top.
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“Any little data point about profitability will obviously be looked at with a magnifying glass.”
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The paper was covered in flow charts, arrows and text so minuscule you almost needed a magnifying glass to read it.
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As most Angelenos will know, the further you move inland, the more the sun feels like someone’s shoved a magnifying glass in front of it.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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