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magnetic

[mag-net-ik] / mægˈnɛt ɪk /


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Mr. Lanchester is a magnetic writer who combines the skills of a social realist with this penchant for Nabokovian black humor and narrative trickery.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

By carefully timing how magnetic fields are applied, scientists can design quantum systems with properties that are more stable and less vulnerable to "noise" or imperfections.

From Science Daily • May 4, 2026

If a player is especially tough and violent on the field, the Chargers will affix a magnetic hammer sticker next to his name on the draft board.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2026

The physics of nuclear magnetic resonance had been a laboratory tool since the 1940s, but it took Raymond Damadian’s 1977 breakthrough to produce the first human scan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

As she answered his questions, the “small, magnetic … negligently dressed” former celebrity paced the room, buried her face in her hands, and played “fitful floods of wild and incoherent melody” on a piano.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock




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