magnetic

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Mr. Lanchester is a magnetic writer who combines the skills of a social realist with this penchant for Nabokovian black humor and narrative trickery.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

The work, led by Cal Poly Physics Department Lecturer Ian Powell, focused on how varying a magnetic field over time can cause matter to exhibit unusual and previously unseen properties.

From Science Daily • May 4, 2026

If a player is especially tough and violent on the field, the Chargers will affix a magnetic hammer sticker next to his name on the draft board.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2026

The physics of nuclear magnetic resonance had been a laboratory tool since the 1940s, but it took Raymond Damadian’s 1977 breakthrough to produce the first human scan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Moreover, they also discovered that if you placed a map of Europe’s magnetic patterns alongside an American one from the same period, they fit together as neatly as two halves of a torn letter.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson