magnetize
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allure, beguile, bewitch, captivate, charm, enchant, fascinate, kill, wile, witch [archaic]
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Lara is a remarkable young actress, with a gaze that magnetizes even the camera’s easily distracted attention. — Los Angeles Times, "Review: A grim fairy tale, ‘Tigers Are Not Afraid’ peers at war through a child’s eyes," 21 Aug. 2019 At least some of the stones used to craft sculptures were hit by lightning at some point in the past, magnetizing the material, according to the research conducted on 11 basalt figures. — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, "Mesoamerican Sculptures Reveal Early Knowledge of Magnetism," 6 Aug. 2019 Early pioneers of universality, led by the physicist Leo Kadanoff, discovered that systems as different as avalanching sand piles and magnetizing metals all operate on multiple scales. — Quanta Magazine, "Bubble Experiment Finds Universal Laws," 31 July 2019 Willett and his colleagues deposited a circuit onto the surface of a gallium arsenide crystal, cooled and magnetized it to induce the 5/2 state, and then measured the peaks and troughs in the current flowing through the circuit. — Quanta Magazine, "Forging a Qubit to Rule Them All," 15 May 2014 Her platform did, however, magnetize Gabriela Alemán, a San Francisco–born and –raised Nicaraguan and Salvadoran artist and organizer, and the co-president of Latin@ Young Democrats of San Francisco. — Jackie Fielder, Teen Vogue, "Gabriela López Just Became the Youngest Elected Official in San Francisco," 11 Jan. 2019 Tension and release are the elastic poles that magnetize classical music. — David Mermelstein, WSJ, "New York’s New Maestro," 1 Oct. 2018 Think of a time when you’ve been filled up from the inside out and just magnetized an object of desire. — Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, "Weekly Horoscopes April 30–May 6," 27 Apr. 2018 By exploiting the properties of this thread, the researchers were able to magnetize small sections of fabric. — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, "Soon You Could Unlock Your Phone With Your Clothes," 3 Nov. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'magnetize.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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