magnify

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Fire, which is this year’s element, tends to magnify the animal’s personality.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

Much of that money will be squandered on capabilities that do more to magnify our weaknesses than to sharpen our strengths.

From Slate • Dec. 19, 2025

Many traders have looked to magnify their bullish bitcoin trades, too.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025

Lately, many of those same investors have been piling into high-volatility stocks—whose daily moves magnify the broader market’s moves—in an attempt to make up lost ground and catch up with the benchmark’s year-to-date returns.

From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025

If you could magnify this Manhattan and if it were full of viruses, you would see little figures clustered like the lunch crowd on Fifth Avenue.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston