attract
Example Sentences
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Disney and Universal are investing tens of billions of dollars to expand their parks and build new ones in hopes of attracting more people and getting them to spend more.
Those jobs attracted a new kind of refugee, as immigrants arrived from across Europe, building a German Catholic church only a short distance from the Polish, Croatian, Irish and Belgian Catholic churches.
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 37 states have modified tax codes and regulatory structures specifically to attract data centers, with billions in exemptions granted annually.
From Salon
The pattern accelerated in the 1990s and 2000s with the growth of Dallas’s Uptown district, just to the north, which attracted many finance, law and technology businesses.
"He looked at me, scared me, attracted me, and I didn't know where I was anymore," she later explained.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
