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[mag-nuh-fahy] / ˈmæg nəˌfaɪ /




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"There is nothing that blood testing can do that would magically take those worries away - it would only potentially magnify them," Jones said.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

At its peak, the fund controlled some $100 billion in assets, supercharged by enormous sums Aschenbrenner borrowed from banks to magnify his AI stock bets, from semiconductors to software.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Such swings in the company’s shares make for a particularly bumpy ride for leveraged ETFs that magnify the rise and fall in SpaceX shares on any given day.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 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

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

Leverage works great when asset prices rise, but concentrating a large share of your wealth in a single, illiquid, undiversified asset also magnifies downside risk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The S&P 500 is weighted by market capitalization, which magnifies the effect of this year’s gains for some of its largest companies.

From MarketWatch ● May 20, 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 prospect of fame magnifies pathologies that have been intensifying over time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025

As I turn the dial, my view through the telescope magnifies.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

This year's winning video was magnified to 100 times in size, and featured tiny hair-like structures, called cilia, in the airways of a child with a rare genetic disease.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

In essence, it is a tourism industry built around the feelings that have made things like roller coasters so popular for a century—but vastly magnified and in spectacular natural settings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

And with that veil ripped off, every emotion they didn’t let themselves feel, every word left unsaid, every last regret, all become instantly magnified, sprawling out before them on an endless road.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

“What’s difficult for the folks in Big Sur, I think today, are the changing dynamics that people are experiencing all over California that are magnified here,” said Supervisor Kate Daniels, who represents the region.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

She heard weeping near her—was it Ella Mae? or Florence? or the echo, magnified, of her own tears?

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

Although college programs dedicate countless man-hours to cracking any secret in their opponents’ plans, turning the magnifying glass toward their own habits is a far greater challenge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

But on the edge of town, engineers peer through giant magnifying glasses while robotic arms manipulate sheets of copper to develop components used in some of the world's most advanced AI systems.

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

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

“Um, guys, I’m not sure how long we have for searching before Mom gets suspicious and starts looking for us. If you think we need a magnifying glass or...something else...we should get it now.”

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix




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