amplify
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This dollar weakness would also cheapen foreign-exchange hedging costs, they believed, allowing foreign investors concerned about the U.S. dollar’s long-run status to bolster their foreign-exchange hedges, which in turn would amplify the buck’s weakness.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
I just want you to amplify how important it is when you slam the courthouse doors, whether it’s preemption or standing, in environment-land, that’s it.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
I wish that the musical didn’t amplify Gretta’s artistic insecurities and distress over the breakup with Max.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
This combination of activities "may have interacted to amplify the compound event," the study said.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
“It won’t amplify on the matter, Alfred,” she said, emphatically.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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The futures, known as perps, are speculative derivative contracts that never expire, allowing traders to pile on leverage that amplifies gains and losses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
His intentional balance of silence and audio amplifies one of the movie’s most famous moments, Adenoid Hynkel’s gibberish speech, into a bombastic, hilarious aural onslaught.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026
“Workers see the headlines, hear about their friends. Crucially they hear about workers having incredibly hard times getting back into jobs, which amplifies the risk of being laid off,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
The Rumbler interacts with a standard police siren, which generates around 110 to 120 decibels, and amplifies that sound through its speakers in eight-second intervals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
The water amplifies my heartbeat so that the thumps are much louder.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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These funds often made big, risky bets on a small number of illiquid stocks and amplified gains by trading on margin—or with borrowed money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
That additional interaction time amplified the small refractive index change in the silicon.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
“Geopolitical tensions have further amplified volatility in energy markets and inflation expectations, adding pressure to both housing-related costs and household budgets,” Fitch added.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
And that will be amplified further if it is again close in the closing singles matches on Sunday.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Maniac nodded, and out of the darkness came the strangest sound — a kind of amplified gulp.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
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Then there’s the growing roster of online influencers showing off backyard chicken flocks and freshly baked bread, amplifying the pressure parents feel to produce healthy, home-cooked meals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
When you are among kin, he tells me, “It is more so about amplifying the beauty that’s there. And the simplicity too.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
She will be remembered for amplifying the voices of women in a way that mainstream media at the time either could not, or would not.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
“AI is amplifying the value of our entire platform,” Robin Washington, chief financial and chief operating officer at Salesforce, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
The entire greenhouse hummed with power, amplifying his until he was a one-man climate-change phenomenon.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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