as in exaggeration
the representation of something in terms that go beyond the facts
most movies don't deal in reality but in a magnification of reality where everything is more intense
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Recent Examples of magnification
That’s why the majority of magnifying glasses have a magnification of only 3-10x.
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Bestreviews, Mercury News, 6 June 2025
The 12x magnification will magnify any wobbles, so a tripod is essential.
—Harry Bennett, Space.com, 7 May 2025
Precision all-glass optics with 6x optical image magnification and a unique electronic image zoom system provide up to 36x magnification.
—Matt Morris, Space.com, 25 May 2025
The higher the magnification, the closer objects will be.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 12 May 2025
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Bestreviews, Mercury News, 6 June 2025
The 12x magnification will magnify any wobbles, so a tripod is essential.
—Harry Bennett, Space.com, 7 May 2025
Precision all-glass optics with 6x optical image magnification and a unique electronic image zoom system provide up to 36x magnification.
—Matt Morris, Space.com, 25 May 2025
The higher the magnification, the closer objects will be.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 12 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for magnification
Noun
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The hinge-less part may have been an exaggeration, for someone who’s likely as much of a control freak as Halsey.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
9 July 2025
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Pew’s findings confirm one of Trump’s most remarkable accomplishments — one so unlikely that professional Latinos long dismissed his election gains as exaggerations.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2025
Noun
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Many of Kidman’s better wigs are blonde or shoulder length, but this unfortunately doesn’t ring true for the HBO movie Hemingway & Gellhorn, which stars Clive Owen as a caricature of Ernest Hemingway and a Golden Globe–nominated Kidman as his wife, the journalist Martha Gellhorn.—
Jihane Bousfiha,
Vulture,
2 July 2025
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Despite this blanket ban on racist caricatures, the hateful Veo 3 videos appear to be spreading unchecked.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
2 July 2025
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Similar studies also led the European Union to restrict food coloring.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
12 July 2025
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With their milkweed diet being a core tenet to how monarchs protect themselves from predators, other butterfly species have evolved to resemble monarchs’ coloring as a way to gain protection.—
Muqsit Ashraf,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2025
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“Magnification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/magnification. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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