amplification
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The sedimentary basin beneath Tillamook could add another source of amplification.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
Even so, sonic adventurers, beginning with Leopold Stokowski in the 1930s, experimented with amplification in an obsessive, seemingly quixotic effort to locate a mythical sonic grail on the Cahuenga Pass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
“But a new structural variable—the amplification effect created by leveraged ETFs and derivatives positioning—has become more important than ever in this market.”
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
The engine roar, so critical to Ferraris, can be provided by what the company calls an “external amplification system” that pumps the natural sound of the electric axles out to the street.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
He was careful not to use scary military terms such as virus amplification, lethal chain of transmission, crash and bleed, or major pucker factor.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Vocabulary lists containing amplification
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