amplifying

Example Sentences

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This inability to spread risk made U.S. banks, and the economy they served, inherently fragile, with a financial infrastructure prone to amplifying shocks rather than absorbing them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

The Financial Stability Board argued in November 2024 that AI is already amplifying correlated, herd-like market responses.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026

Sustained low consumer sentiment is attributed to a series of price shocks and modern media amplifying negative economic news.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

Those cases showed how a loss of confidence can cause the volume of private money to contract, amplifying economic stress.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

Adjoining the den was a furnace room, which contained a tool-littered table piled with some of his other works-in- progress—an amplifying unit, an elderly wind-up Victrola that he was restoring to service.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote