as in attraction
something that attracts interest
the giant theme park is a magnet for tourists to the area
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Recent Examples of magnet
Idioms especially are magnets for folk etymology.
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Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Flower clusters are four- to eight-inches wide and are a magnet to birds and butterflies, persisting for months in dry flower arrangements.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 18 Oct. 2025
Trump earlier on Friday blamed Beijing for the latest impasse, a dispute over China's sweeping new export restrictions on rare-earth minerals and magnets.
—Reuters, NBC news, 18 Oct. 2025
In July, the Pentagon also struck an unprecedented deal to buy a $400 million stock in rare earth company MP Materials, while guaranteeing a ten-year floor price of double prevailing market levels for the strategically crucial rare earth magnet neodymium-praseodymium.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
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Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Flower clusters are four- to eight-inches wide and are a magnet to birds and butterflies, persisting for months in dry flower arrangements.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 18 Oct. 2025
Trump earlier on Friday blamed Beijing for the latest impasse, a dispute over China's sweeping new export restrictions on rare-earth minerals and magnets.
—Reuters, NBC news, 18 Oct. 2025
In July, the Pentagon also struck an unprecedented deal to buy a $400 million stock in rare earth company MP Materials, while guaranteeing a ten-year floor price of double prevailing market levels for the strategically crucial rare earth magnet neodymium-praseodymium.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for magnet
attraction
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Teens are also sick of storytelling tropes that include love triangles (sorry, Celine Song), toxic relationships framed as romantic, and relationships based mostly on physical attraction, per the survey.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
22 Oct. 2025
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Each one of these IPs has a niche or uber attraction.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Magnet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/magnet. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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