- present participle of amplify.
amplifying
Example Sentences
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The positioning risk, however, would increase should U.S. growth or consumer expectations worsen markedly, amplifying downward pressure through the unwind of profitable long positions.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Kairi’s scenes are often accompanied by the powerful score from composer Yoko Shimomura, amplifying the emotion that has driven the games’ fanbase for more than two decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 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
Without soil moisture to evaporate, solar energy goes entirely into baking the ground, thereby amplifying temperatures.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 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
