heighten
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A dry winter will make the current drought worse and heighten government concerns.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Xi spoke for 40 minutes, folding Jiang’s legacy into his own, and closed with a warning rather than a tribute: “On the new journey ahead, we must heighten our sense of vigilance against potential dangers.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Reinvigorating free markets requires a broad effort to heighten economic competition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Anthropic urged Congress to penalise the companies behind the alleged attacks and heighten measures to prevent US technology from being stolen.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The ambiguity in Woman Holding a Balance serves to heighten our interest and pleasure, while the carefully organized composition expresses the artist’s underlying concept with singular clarity.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
Feeding wild birds heightens the risk of disease transmission at feeding locations.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
The risk of smashups heightens the excitement at more than a dozen docking events around the bay, which can pull in several thousand spectators.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Coverage of the 1986 World Series doesn’t mention Boston’s 68-year stretch without a title, which heightens the devastation of their Game 6 loss to the New York Mets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
"People are realising constant swiping isn't actually leading to real-world dates, which only heightens dating fatigue," said Ryan.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
In fact I have never seen so handsome a people, and their manly and highly picturesque costume heightens the favourable effect produced by their well-made, lithe, active figures.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
But it inched up again in its September reading due to heightened fears about market volatility, outliving savings, housing and cognitive decline.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
After achieving a historic surplus in 2025, China's trade has continued to boom this year, thanks largely to heightened overseas demand for semiconductors, computing hardware and other products linked to the artificial intelligence boom.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
When it comes to collectible blind boxes, the effect is heightened, she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Investor concerns about potential intervention may also be heightened given the Labor Day holiday in the U.S. on Monday, when foreign-exchange intervention could have an outsized impact given thin trading volumes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
And my heightened brain shows me the door latch just before I need to turn it.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
The company has bolstered the memory capacity on its devices to support these capabilities — simultaneously heightening its supply-chain cost pressures.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026
The Treasury selloff could also turn into bad news for car buyers, heightening the risk of higher interest rates for auto loans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras, located in the so-called "Dry Corridor", all set monthly temperature records in both June and July, heightening concerns over famine.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
The outbreak is still not under control and is taking place in a conflict zone with very mobile populations – heightening the need for a vaccine to help stop the spread of disease.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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