fatal attraction
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It probably wasn’t smart, but it was like a fatal attraction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
Artificial lights have been a fatal attraction for sea turtle hatchlings, migrating songbirds and some insects, steering them toward predators or disorienting them to the point of exhaustion.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
Even more than their fatal attraction, the two journalists share the same killer instinct: They’ll go to hilarious lengths to get the story, ethics be damned.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2017
Wild cherry, the leaves of which are highly poisonous, has had a fatal attraction for cattle once its foliage has been sprayed with 2,4-D.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 3, 2017
Wild cherry, the leaves of which are highly poisonous, has exerted a fatal attraction for cattle once its foliage has been sprayed with 2,4-D.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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