heightened
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Amid heightened economic anxiety and inflation, shoppers are increasingly looking for ways to save.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Fears are heightened over rogue AI after OpenAI technology operating outside human supervision hacked into Hugging Face, a repository of AI models.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
“The investor mindset shifted, and now sentiment shifts,” said Nationwide’s Hackett, pointing to heightened backlash against the data-center build-out from politicians ahead of the midterm elections, as well as from average voters.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 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
The deferential tone heightened the content of his announcement.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
