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

Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer, as the formerly mousy secret agent Eve and the childlike, psychopathic assassin Villanelle, played out a second season of fatal attraction and extreme codependence.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2019

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

Scientists are not sure how exactly the parasite elicits this fatal attraction, but one clue surfaced in 2014 in Vyas's laboratory.

From Scientific American • Mar. 26, 2015

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