Her performance magnetized the audience.
the store's gorgeous window displays never fail to magnetize shoppers and sightseers
Recent Examples on the WebHe bare-knuckle punches with a split-second intensity that magnetizes the camera to his every move.—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 26 Apr. 2024 Complicated to fabricate and install (the office of Frank Gehry, architect of Disney Hall next door, helped solve some of the thorny design issues), the exterior’s white surfaces seem to magnetize urban grime and are not easy to keep clean.—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024 As expected, there’s the LCD screen and app that reports real time data, a remote that magnetizes to the device, and several modes.—Alida Nugent, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Jan. 2024 This spinning field magnetizes and engages the rotor, which is usually made of a ferromagnetic alloy called electric steel.—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2024 And now, Tom feels Dickie slipping away, magnetized instead to his old pal Freddie.—Hazlitt, 28 Feb. 2024 The discovery, recently published in the journal Nature, marks the latest advance in the five-decade hunt for Nagaoka ferromagnetism, in which a material magnetizes as the electrons within it minimize their kinetic energy, in contrast to traditional magnets.—Michael Greshko, WIRED, 28 Jan. 2024 Listing image by Larian Studios Enlarge / Cleveland doctor Sherri Tenpenny gives false testimony on June 8, 2021, saying COVID-19 vaccines magnetize people.—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 12 Aug. 2023 However the material was magnetizing, exchange interactions didn’t seem to be driving it.—Michael Greshko, WIRED, 28 Jan. 2024
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