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

A margin account is a type of brokerage account where you can borrow money from your broker to buy securities, amplifying potential gains—but risking sharper losses too.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

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

From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026

New Jersey didn’t allow for the exemption until last spring, when then Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, signed legislation allowing for it—just before the tax bill amplifying the provision was passed.

From Barron's • May 13, 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