How to Use amplification in a Sentence

amplification

noun
  • There’s a couple of ways to go about that, amplification is one.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Yet our view of the future so often is just an amplification of our present mood.
    — Robert Niles, Orange County Register, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The proof shows black-box amplification has hit its ceiling.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2025
  • That’s what leads to amplification of extremism and all the rest.
    — Billy Perrigo, Time, 22 Jan. 2021
  • They should be held accountable for that amplification, but that’s not enough.
    — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 7 Oct. 2020
  • There were video projections in some scenes and amplification was used.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2022
  • With its roots in amplification and truth-telling, this community feels like home to me.
    — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 2 June 2025
  • High amplification and power output can also cause the cone to move in a way that results in a tear.
    — Kevin Luna, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2021
  • What’s changed is the speed and scale at which narratives can move and the fact that not all amplification is done by humans.
    — Stefan Pollack, Forbes.com, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Mascara, the go-to product for easy lash amplification, can mean smudges and streaks for those without a ton of lid space.
    — Tatjana Freund, Marie Claire, 9 Feb. 2021
  • But the amplification of one allegation of abuse is troubling to many of us who loved him.
    — Matt McLeod, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
  • This recent stretch is an amplification of a career trend with Jones.
    — Michael Salfino, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
  • The sound is superbly clean and the amplification keeps a tight control over the music, even at high volumes.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Without amplification, music from the band shell would carry only to the first few rows.
    — Dirk Sutro, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Tech for Campaigns sees its role as behind-the-scenes amplification.
    — New York Times, 13 July 2018
  • Then a rocker filled the air, with enough amplification to be heard in Birmingham.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The true amplification concerns relate to what doesn’t trend because of what is trending.
    — Whitney Phillips, Wired, 18 June 2021
  • The problem is, the arctic is warming faster than the rest of the planet, known as arctic amplification.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2018
  • With enough amplification, the messages reach the nearby home or office where the key fob is located.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2023
  • This ensemble would have been able to do still more if their obtrusive body mics hadn’t been cranked so high, in a space that needs no amplification at all.
    — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Lyrics drown in the murk of excessive amplification.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
  • The overall degree of access has kind of widened, but the question has shifted to amplification.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Frank Gehry was a real sonuvabitch because this same amplification applies to the body and any sounds that may emanate from it.
    — Yusef Roach, Los Angeles Magazine, 31 May 2018
  • Levy throws his own house-show series, Agreement of Sound, with no amplification.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The amplification of the video has already led to one arrest, with more possibly coming.
    — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2018
  • But the process of light-amplification has straitened the storytelling.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 16 June 2026
  • And then there is Reich’s love of aggressive amplification, which was modest and warm this time.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2023
  • In some instances, researchers have found that the larger the language model, the worse the amplification of bias and toxic text.
    — Khari Johnson, Wired, 30 Sep. 2021
  • As with Arctic amplification, this land-ocean contrast can be seen in observed warming.
    — Nadir Jeevanjee, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The amplification — good enough to begin with — has only gotten better over the past 11 months.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2021

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