amplify
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"To overcome this limitation, we introduced a terahertz split-ring resonator. Such a dark cavity can reshape the electromagnetic environment and substantially amplify vacuum fluctuations."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026
These vectors amplify market dislocations as multiple participants simultaneously unwind positions.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 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
This combination of activities "may have interacted to amplify the compound event," the study said.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The magic horn had become so attuned to her emotions it could amplify her anger, love or grief and spew forth its bounty accordingly.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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"The Earth-ionosphere cavity acts as a natural resonator that amplifies electromagnetic waves right around the mass range we wanted to probe."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 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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Anthropic has amplified the theological aspects of this debate.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
Xiang believes two forces have amplified this anxiety - the property market and the higher education system.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Although 0.04 still represents an orbit that would look nearly circular, that difference would have greatly amplified the tidal forces acting on Ariel.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
The Korean market’s overconcentration in semiconductors also amplified volatility, the BOK said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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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
Now the early AI era is amplifying the importance of that information.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 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
"Europe is associated, in young people's minds, with success and upward social mobility," she said, adding that social media played a key "amplifying role".
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
White immigrants, in contrast, were not so easy to identify and separate, thus amplifying the anxieties of ethnic contamination and miscegenation in the 1920s.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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