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magnetize

[mag-ni-tahyz] / ˈmæg nɪˌtaɪz /


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“I learned to temper my thoughts, embrace gratefulness, give myself grace, pour into myself to be available for others and magnetize the positive into manifested results,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2024

To magnetize an iron nail, one simply has to stroke its surface several times with a bar magnet.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 7, 2023

Still, we are creatures of narrative, and so — as summer draws fall, or as Mardi Gras opens onto Ash Wednesday — photographs tend to magnetize words.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2020

In a ferromagnet such as iron, all the atoms act like little magnets and they all point in the same direction to magnetize the entire material.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 30, 2020

“If I rub the needle with the lodestone, I’ll magnetize it. Basically I’ll turn it into a compass needle. If we can get it to float on the water without breaking the surface tension...”

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

"First, we irradiate the alloy with a strong laser pulse, which magnetizes the material," explains Theo Pflug.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 7, 2023

Rather, it's about knowing the genre and what magnetizes the mainstream audience and catering to the film's marketing accordingly.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2022

The cartoonish face on a classicized statue jump-starts the statue with an incongruity that magnetizes passers-by.

From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2022

The southernmost state and yet not quite identified with the deep south, a meeting point for Latino influence and a rangy variant of Americana, it’s a strange place that magnetizes strange people.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2019

Ama creates another Adinkra symbol that magnetizes Lala back to the ship.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

This structure shows that magnetized plasma is being dragged through the cluster, leaving behind a diffuse trail that has persisted for millions of years.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 13, 2026

This validation that A.I. gives its user—or rather itself—is another reason students are so magnetized to these programs.

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026

Mr. Lewis is alternately magnetized and repulsed by Sellers and goes to exhaustive lengths to comprehend him, eventually resorting to quoting Sellers—a believer in the power of the Ouija board—via a spiritual medium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

This brief but extreme change is consistent with a dense cloud of magnetized plasma crossing the path between the FRB and Earth.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 28, 2026

We cram it all into a magnetized tin the size of an index card.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven

If reach is what she’s looking for, Rogan’s invitation would seem to be a magnetizing one.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2024

Friends and family said she was well-liked and had a magnetizing personality.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

“Grief is a magnetizing force from which the book cannot escape.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2022

At night, the smell of charred chicken sizzling on an outside spit often wafted through the neighborhood, magnetizing Metro riders as they emerged from underground escalators.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2020

Maybe it was the way he massaged the feeling back into my hands, or his yeshivish cadence, or those magnetizing bourbon-colored eyes, but something told me I could confide in him.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros




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