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magnetic force

American  
[mag-net-ik fawrs] / mægˈnɛt ɪk ˈfɔrs /

noun

magnetic forces plural
  1. Physics. the force of attraction or repulsion between electric currents, electrically charged particles, or magnetic poles.

  2. Informal. magnetism.


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“There’s some strange magnetic force that’s in us — you can talk about God or whatever you want to call it — but I think it’s a metaphysical process that’s in us.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2025

And yet as the story of the Lauder collection shows, even then his magnetic force remained.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

"We put this wire on the mucus layer of the live cells, and then we applied a magnetic force to this probe and measured its displacement," said Braunreuther.

From Science Daily • May 7, 2024

Sunspots are darker, cooler areas on the sun’s surface where magnetic force is significantly higher than elsewhere on the sun.

From National Geographic • Dec. 1, 2023

The magnetic force makes a comeback, this time repelling the Obayifo away from us.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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