amplifier
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A few paces away, Jerry Garcia’s “Budman” amplifier, once part of the Grateful Dead’s three-story high “Wall of Sound,” perched atop a podium.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026
In principle, such a plasma can act as an energy amplifier, producing far more energy than it takes to create and sustain it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025
Rather than relying on one long crystal or stacking many short ones, they run the light repeatedly through a single short crystal inside an optical parametric amplifier.
From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2025
Because pain itself is generated in the brain, not the body’s tissues, it can be wildly out of proportion to any physical damage, an amplifier that transforms a whisper into a distorted shriek.
From Slate • Sep. 15, 2025
Johnny had arrived two hours earlier with an amplifier almost as tall as himself that needed fixing.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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