repulsion
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In an earlier study, the researchers showed that they could directly manipulate vacuum fluctuations by using a magnetic field to reversibly switch the Casimir force between attraction and repulsion.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026
Or they could simply be arresting abstractions in a sculpture that sits aesthetically between formal attraction and repulsion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
At the time, watching these videos didn’t elicit nausea or repulsion in Jemima—they came across as amusing.
From Slate ● May 12, 2026
Polling data backs up this anecdotal display of repulsion towards racist violence.
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2026
The helium nuclei will be jammed together still more tightly, so much so that they begin to stick together, the hooks of their short-range nuclear forces becoming engaged despite the mutual electrical repulsion.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Ms. Dixon often seesaws between a work’s attractions and its repulsions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Other interactions, such as nuclear-nuclear repulsions and nuclear-electron attractions, are also involved in the final arrangement that atoms adopt in a particular molecular structure.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
We can also learn how to get over our repulsions.
From The Verge ● May 9, 2018
Mr. Hastings writes incisively about the attractions and repulsions of the new media gossip.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2014
The simplest automatic reflex actions are at the root of these attractions and repulsions, exactly the same as with the daphniæ, wood-lice and gnats.
From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Max Simon Nordau
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