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magnetize

[mag-ni-tahyz] / ˈmæg nɪˌtaɪz /


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“I learned to temper my thoughts, embrace gratefulness, give myself grace, pour into myself to be available for others and magnetize the positive into manifested results,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2024

"We apply an oscillating field to reset the magnetization, then apply a strong magnetic field to the cilia which allows us to magnetize the microparticles in a new direction."

From Science Daily Apr. 24, 2024

Whether any of their creations transcend gee-whizzery and prove powerful enough to magnetize deeper meanings to it will become clearer with time.

From Washington Post Feb. 15, 2023

In a ferromagnet such as iron, all the atoms act like little magnets and they all point in the same direction to magnetize the entire material.

From Science Magazine Mar. 30, 2020

“If I rub the needle with the lodestone, I’ll magnetize it. Basically I’ll turn it into a compass needle. If we can get it to float on the water without breaking the surface tension...”

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

"First, we irradiate the alloy with a strong laser pulse, which magnetizes the material," explains Theo Pflug.

From Science Daily Dec. 7, 2023

It smells hellish too, like rotting meat on a sweltering day, which magnetizes tons of insects that scatter its spores.

From Salon Apr. 30, 2023

The cartoonish face on a classicized statue jump-starts the statue with an incongruity that magnetizes passers-by.

From New York Times Apr. 14, 2022

The southernmost state and yet not quite identified with the deep south, a meeting point for Latino influence and a rangy variant of Americana, it’s a strange place that magnetizes strange people.

From The Guardian Mar. 28, 2019

Ama creates another Adinkra symbol that magnetizes Lala back to the ship.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

This validation that A.I. gives its user—or rather itself—is another reason students are so magnetized to these programs.

From Slate Mar. 20, 2026

Mr. Lewis is alternately magnetized and repulsed by Sellers and goes to exhaustive lengths to comprehend him, eventually resorting to quoting Sellers—a believer in the power of the Ouija board—via a spiritual medium.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 12, 2026

As radio waves pass through magnetized plasma, the angle of their polarization shifts depending on frequency, a process called Faraday rotation.

From Science Daily Jan. 28, 2026

It also sheds light on similar processes occurring around other magnetized worlds, including Jupiter and Saturn, expanding our grasp of how planetary environments evolve across the solar system.

From Science Daily Oct. 31, 2025

Again Melquíades tried to dissuade him, but he finally accepted the two magnetized ingots and three colonial coins in exchange for the magnifying glass.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Friends and family said she was well-liked and had a magnetizing personality.

From Seattle Times Mar. 6, 2024

“Grief is a magnetizing force from which the book cannot escape.”

From Washington Post Oct. 17, 2022

But I made the mistake that she did, which I forgot about the magnetizing.

From Salon Aug. 7, 2022

John wasn’t much at coming up with new melodies, but the words were magnetizing.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 7, 2020

The discovery was a method of magnetizing plastic.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien




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