Josh Hamilton

This is how I feel about horror films: there's enough scary things that happen in day-to-day life. Sometimes just going and getting the mail is scary, when you open your bills. And so, sometimes I feel like scary movies are just tapping into those anxieties and magnifying them.

American Actor

Yami Gautam

There is failure in every industry; there is failure in every step. It's just that we are working in an industry where everything is just out there; that is why it looks so magnified. But failure is a part of life.

Indian Actress

Nicholas A. Christakis

Just because we say networks are important doesn't mean that networks explain everything. We're just adding additional information. Networks don't work like a match - they work like a magnifying glass.

American Scientist

Jon Anderson

You think life is a beautiful thing, and you've got to live accordingly. You've got to magnify all your better feelings and better urges and better conscious ideas, and that's your life's evolvement.

British Musician

Karen Civil

Social media can help or hurt you. People are more into other people's lives than their own. Everyone sees everyone else's success online, and we allow it to magnify our own failure.

American Businesswoman

Giordano Bruno

Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.

Italian Philosopher

Aldous Huxley

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

English Novelist

Jeff Bridges

What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind of kick to the curb.

Alexander Pope

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

English Poet

Ben Affleck

There's a lot of noise in the world, and the Internet magnifies that energy.

Used to describe the action of making something tiny look bigger so you can see details.

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Sometimes used metaphorically to suggest increasing something's influence or presence.

Not literal

In photography, magnify means to zoom in or enlarge an image for detail.

Photography context

Used when someone makes a problem seem bigger than it really is.

Emphasizing issues

May mean dramatizing events for emotional responses or attention.

Drama effect

Avoid using 'magnify' if you want to minimize or downplay an issue.

Careful communication

In religious contexts, it refers to praising God with great respect and reverence.

Religious praise

Magnifying God doesn't mean being loud; it's about the depth of feeling.

Not always loud

 filter you don't put it between your eye and the lens that's closed so you have to put it between the lens farthest away from you because this lens is magnifying the sun's ray that's right and it could it could tear a hole right in your filter if you put it close to your eye or it you know it could let some of this harmful UV rays in yep so the truth is

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 But the people who were in unhappy relationships, on the days when they reported more physical pain, it was magnified by more emotional pain. And the third big lesson that we learned about relationships and our health is that good relationships don't just protect our bodies, they protect our brains.

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 like caterpillars, which use chewing mouthparts to devour leaves before metamorphosing into butterflies and moths with siphoning mouthparts. Still, mouthpart identification can, for the most part, help scientists—and you —categorize insects. So why not break out a magnifying lens

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 Now, she's afraid of bees and she's allergic to them, so I poured more resin on the canvas, thinking I could hide it or something. Instead, the opposite It sort of created a magnification, like a magnifying glass, on the dictionary text. So what did I do? I built more boxes.

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 for pity, imagination, compassion, commiseration. These endowments have found ways to magnify their own power. The scope of language has been augmented by the written, printed and electronic word. Our circle of sympathy has been expanded

Is the world getting...

 but what they are after isn't your money. It's not your documents. It's your attention. They grab the spotlight for causes they support, forcing us to take note, acting as a global magnifying glass

Hackers: the internet's...

 terribly allergic to bees and afraid of them so I covered it in more resin thinking I would hide it the opposite happened I discovered an optical quality the text was magnified this built me

Why I think inside the...

 This stereotype is probably exploited and magnified by images in popular media, in which facial disfigurement is often used as a shorthand to depict someone of villainous character.

How your brain decides...

 Looking deeply inside nature, through the magnifying glass of science, designers extract principles, processes and materials that are forming the very basis of design methodology.

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 Mateo can use the long lens that will magnify a cat even from the other side of the valley it's a more traditional technique and it pays off

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