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magnify

[mag-nuh-fahy] / ˈmæg nəˌfaɪ /




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The stock also is destined to join the exchange-traded funds that use options to magnify daily stock price changes.

From Barron's • Jun. 17, 2026

Treacy said SpaceX’s small free float — the number of shares freely available to trade by the public — was likely helping magnify the stock’s gains.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 16, 2026

A single supermassive black hole can dramatically magnify a background star, but only when the alignment is almost perfect.

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

Unable to reach him by phone and confined at home because Ernest had the car, she let her imagination magnify “all the horror stories about what excess radiation might do to the men.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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