lodestone

noun

lode·stone | \ ˈlōd-ˌstōn

variants: or less commonly loadstone

Definition of lodestone

1 : magnetite possessing polarity

2 : something that strongly attracts

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Examples of lodestone in a Sentence

the young woman's wealth unfortunately made her a lodestone for fortune hunters

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John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley is cited as a literary lodestone in Our Towns, along with William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways. — Barry Singer, USA TODAY, "In 'Our Towns,' married authors crisscross America to take 'fresh look' at USA," 8 May 2018 Equally keen not to be eclipsed, Hublot is at the precipice of unveiling a Big Bang crafted of the same lodestone owned and used by 6BC philosopher Thales of Miletus and which has been magnetized by the forcefield surrounding Zeus’s lightning bolts. — Wei Koh, A-LIST, "How the Watch Industry Plundered the Periodic Table," 3 Apr. 2018 His unpopularity at home was a lodestone in his presidential campaign, not a victim of that presidential campaign’s failure. — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, "Chris Christie’s Hard-Earned Unpopularity Is His Most Enduring Legacy," 10 Jan. 2018 While most U.S. government activities in space, and the lion's share of the space budget, are focused on military programs, human spaceflight remains the program's lodestone. — chicagotribune.com, "Trump needs to go to the moon," 14 Aug. 2017 The director pays close attention to the details of this ramshackle house, which begins as an emotional lodestone for C and eventually becomes something approaching a prison. — David Sims, The Atlantic, "A Ghost Story Is a Haunting Modern Fable," 6 July 2017 The shot turned a two-point deficit into a one-point lead, the lodestone in a stunning, 11-0 run in the final, furious 138 seconds of Game 3 of the NBA Finals. — Adam Kilgore, The Denver Post, "“I’ve seen that”: The shot of Kevin Durant’s life was a lifetime in the making," 8 June 2017 Of the three polar features on Mercator’s sixteenth-century map—the mountain, the maelstrom, and the open polar sea—only the lodestone mountain turned out to be a myth. — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, "Literature’s Arctic Obsession," 24 Apr. 2017

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