noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fridge magnet
magnet school
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bar
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I once saw a woman whose job it was to make small bar magnets from steel blanks about two inches long.
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Like the electron, the muon acts like a tiny bar magnet .
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When the suitably insulated conductor is wound round a rod of soft iron it forms a bar magnet .
school
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The plan involved a variation of the magnet school concept.
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Although we have approved desegregation plans involving magnet schools of this conventional definition, the District Court found this insufficient.
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In November 1986, the District Court endorsed a marked expansion of the magnet school program.
■ VERB
attract
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A place for all kinds of wildlife to stop off and drink, it will attract them like a magnet .
become
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The Liverpool waterfront has become a magnet for tourists from near and far.
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Some eligibility criteria would be set to prevent the city from becoming a magnet for the uninsured.
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Throughout the 1980s the North-East has become a magnet for new investment.
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As the population grows, we become a magnet for the big, impersonal outlets.
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Over the past two decades this Wisconsinsized country has become a magnet that has drawn social activists from all over the world.
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Whatever the attraction, the boys find that their house has become a magnet for aliens.
draw
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The Allies seemed to be drawn as if by a magnet to our local villages.
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The sudden warmth, meagre though it was, drew Isabel like a magnet .
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Somehow sensing this connection, clerics have been drawn as if by a magnet to the rails.
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Certain men - husbands not excepted - seemed drawn like a magnet to a female in her circumstances.
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Redundant miners are not the only ones drawn by the drugs magnet .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Ever notice what a visual magnet a mirror is?
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Most are attracted by the splendour of the city's colleges, but they also prove a magnet for organised crime.
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Take care with the magnets by the way, as allowing them to snap together causes them to break.
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The centre of town seemed to draw them back like a magnet .
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The metal was a magnet that attracted people from all over the world.
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This magnet for unwanted paper will fill up and overflow with monotonous regularity and should be abolished.