as in attractions
something that attracts interest
the giant theme park is a magnet for tourists to the area
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Recent Examples of magnets
Those bright white tees seem to be absolute stain magnets attracting coffee drips, spaghetti sauce spots, and salad dressing splashes.
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Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 10 Jan. 2026
Head to Amazon to get your hands on the compliment magnets in my closet from $18.
—Kyra Surgent, InStyle, 10 Jan. 2026
What’s more, Greenland is rich with oil and rare earth minerals, like neodymium and dysprosium, which can be used to make objects like smartphones and magnets, among others.
—Jessica Schladebeck, Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2026
Rare earths and the magnets made from them are used heavily by militaries in weapons like fighter jets, drones and missiles, and are also critical for manufacturing goods such as smartphones and electric vehicles.
—Josh Xiao Bloomberg, Arkansas Online, 7 Jan. 2026
This facility is expected to develop commercial recycling capacity for both neodymium-iron-boron and samarium-cobalt magnets.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Jan. 2026
New Harmony houses a plethora of historic sites made famous by two early 19th-century utopian experiments that are magnets for tourists today.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 30 Dec. 2025
Earlier this month, China added five rare-earth elements – holmium, erbium, thulium, europium, ytterbium, and related magnets and materials – to its existing control list, requiring export licenses.
—Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
Patients are placed inside a tube and surrounded by the machine containing the magnets.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 28 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for magnets
attractions
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Power outages have frequently been the cause of riders becoming stranded on amusement park attractions in the past.—
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Walt would come to Disneyland on Saturday mornings to walk the park with Fowler and other managers to inspect operations and float ideas for new attractions and expansion plans.—
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“Magnets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/magnets. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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