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  • verb Present participle of amplify.

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amplify +‎ -ing

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Examples

  • My thought is that religion can serve in amplifying and directing a commitment to previously accepted values: so, for example, if you are antecedently committed to relieving human suffering and to promoting equal opportunities, you may find particular parts of the Gospels inspiring.

    Michael Ruse: The Quest For Inclusion in the Science and Religion Debate Michael Ruse 2010

  • The content of this workshop is geared toward performing (dance or actors) artists and musicians who are interested in amplifying live time in a performance space and practicing interdisciplinary art activities.

    View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2006

  • Researchers have succeeded in amplifying genetic material from insects trapped in amber that have been extinct for more than 20 million years.

    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1993 1993

  • In order for this to enhance the characteristic, there must be some kind of amplifying mechanism that inputs the characteristic and spits it out with whatever enhancements this mechanism produces and the cycle repeats for positive feedback.

    Evolution as Feedback? - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • Because this test involves rapidly multiplying -- or what we say, "amplifying" anthrax DNA in our laboratory, the validation that we've been able to do to detect anthrax in samples that contain on a few bacteria is quite outstanding.

    CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2001 2001

  • Warmists avoid that obvious truth by postulating various "amplifying" factors that will make the 21st century rise much greater than that seen in the 20th century.

    Stop The ACLU 2009

  • "amplifying" the stretches of individual genomes that border transposons and reading thousands of the junctions with advanced sequencing techniques, then comparing them to the reference human genome.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • This is the civic equivalent of the echo chamber effect that in the previous chapter we found to be so important in amplifying the political effects of religion.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Pulling requires the ability to boil the n|om, amplifying your good ecstatic feelings, without falling over.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • We hold and touch each other, modulating and amplifying the vibrations that shoot n|om into us.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

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