multiply

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Singly charged ions could escape, while multiply charged ions, which are often more biologically important, remained trapped.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2026

It was an intense and disorienting time if you were simply a fan of the music; multiply that by approximately a gigaton if you were anywhere adjacent.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

“We start to draw conclusions,” says Sammut, “whether that’s a golden pattern we want to multiply across their peers or whether it’s an anti-pattern that we want to coach our way out of.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

"And you multiply this by what's happening all over Birmingham and there are some very fed-up people, and I can understand people who say they're not going to pay their council tax," she said.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

If we multiply by a hundred thousand our sense of loss for this work of Aristarchus, we begin to appreciate the grandeur of the achievement of classical civilization and the tragedy of its destruction.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan