verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
magnifying glass
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
times
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Everything Suzanna had made me feel was alive again, magnified a hundred times .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Binoculars magnify far-off objects.
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Her eyes were magnified by her thick glasses.
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Our lack of information magnified our mistakes.
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The image is magnified by a series of lenses within the telescope.
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This microscope can magnify an object up to forty times.
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This report tends to magnify the risks involved.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But they were obvious to most people, even though they were magnified by those who didn't know him well.
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In doing so, he has magnified his reputation and career a thousandfold.
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On bad teams those inevitable difficulties tend to get magnified.
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Techshare gains were magnified by portfolio borrowings that last summer equaled about 15 cents for each dollar invested.
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Toy problems may converge in a reasonable amount of time; real problems may magnify the task beyond reasonable limits.
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Yet the former were magnified a hundredfold in terms of publicity.
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Your watchful siblings are the editors perched on your lamp shade, magnifying glasses poised to catch your mistakes.