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Commercial processing can magnify certain food-safety risks, including chopping and shredding in large facilities where a single contaminated leaf can mix with other produce.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

JPMorgan, for example, points out that more leveraged single-stock exchange-traded funds, which use options to magnify returns, were launched in the past year than for any other category.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

As the black holes orbit each other, their immense gravity could repeatedly magnify the light from stars located behind them, creating recurring flashes that may reveal the hidden systems.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026

This pattern has helped to magnify the party's seat losses, which currently stand at 250 seats or half of all those it has been trying to defend.

From BBC ● May 8, 2026

Nevertheless, many parents so magnify the benefit of a car seat that they trek to the local police station or firehouse to have it installed just right.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

Borrowed money magnifies returns when share prices are rising as smaller investors are able to gain far more exposure to the upside, but when share prices fall that leverage exacerbates losses.

From MarketWatch ● May 21, 2026

When a massive object such as a neutron star passes in front of a more distant star, its gravity bends and magnifies the background star's light.

From Science Daily ● May 15, 2026

“The Tristan Project” — created by video artist Bill Viola, director Peter Sellars and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney in 2004 — magnifies the rituals of life and death.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

As in all sports novels, climbing offers the characters a framework for living, and Mr. Tallent magnifies every aspect of its metaphoric potential.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

Some of them were very tall; many were dressed in white; and all had a sweeping amplitude of array that seemed to magnify their persons as a mist magnifies the moon.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Exchange-traded funds designed to allow traders to place magnified bets on stocks and other assets have seen a surge in investor interest in recent years.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

The sadness at the loss of a friend to many, magnified by the horror of what we were to later learn about its horrific circumstances.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

He invests his savings in U.S. stocks, and the dizzying gains of the artificial-intelligence-driven run-up in stocks mean his returns have been magnified when converted back into yen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

When experiencing either emotion, everything — be it a piece of news, the prick of a finger, a conversation with a loved one living thousands of miles away — is magnified.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026

A clean-shaven man, he looked exactly like a magnified version of Ronny.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

But the order will leave its mark by magnifying the confusion many parents already face in making decisions about their children’s immunizations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

"I suppose you've got to be a bit nerdy," he says, explaining he takes a magnifying glass with him diving.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Those natural "cosmic magnifying glasses" could provide some of the strongest evidence yet for this new picture of the invisible universe.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026

Being able to trade all day and do quirky things like magnifying daily gains and losses are part of their appeal, but their best feature has always been tax efficiency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

I stand there with the star in my hand not sure what to do until he turns back around and says, “You coming or what? I brought an extra magnifying glass for you.”

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson