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[mag-nuh-fahy] / ˈmæg nəˌfaɪ /




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The researchers say dietary sugar may magnify the microbiome disruption caused by antibiotics because potentially harmful bacteria that survive treatment may be able to use those sugars to expand.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

And with so much hinging on the AI put, any loss of confidence could quickly collide with an uncertain macroeconomic backdrop, helping magnify losses across markets.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

"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

BOJ policymakers worry that a soft yen could magnify Japan’s energy bill as Middle East hostilities flare again.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

The spectacles have good lenses that magnify things: when I try them on, even French words look large and easy to read.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

In these events, the gravity of a foreground star and any accompanying planets magnifies the light of a more distant background star, briefly making it appear brighter.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 1, 2026

When liquidity tightens, silver does not simply follow gold — it magnifies the move.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 30, 2026

The prospect of fame magnifies pathologies that have been intensifying over time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025

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

While this weather system is not expected to be as severe as Storm Boelo, its impacts could be magnified coming so soon after the previous storm.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

The kicking game hasn’t been the Rams’ lone problem, but it has magnified how thin the team’s margins are because of its other shortcomings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Dressed in a camouflage bomber jacket, his eyes continued to linger on the magnified view of the downtown skyline as he spoke.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

Conversely, declines in valuations of mortgage-backed securities are magnified when interest rates are rising.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

We took Davon and Alfred to the Maryland Science Center, where they saw a twenty-foot wall covered floor to ceiling with a picture of cells stained neon green and magnified under a microscope.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

Now, physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have brought that same principle to electron microscopy, a technology capable of magnifying objects roughly 10,000 times more than conventional light microscopes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

Trivial Pursuit comes with a magnifying card since the type is so small.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

When you look at films like that under a magnifying glass, they tend to fall apart.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 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

He imagined if she had a magnifying glass, she’d peer at him through it.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova


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