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magnetic

[mag-net-ik] / mægˈnɛt ɪk /


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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

One idea suggested that magnetic interactions between the star and its surrounding disc created the high-energy emissions.

From Science Daily • May 1, 2026

I found a “brand ambassador” and he showed off the darts, which were magnetic.

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

One’s magnetic and directional subsenses are all wrong on other planets; when the intellect won’t or can’t compensate for that wrongness, the result is a profound bewilderment, a feeling that everything, literally, has come loose.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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