The phrase "attracting away" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It is not commonly used and may confuse readers, as "attracting" typically implies drawing something in rather than pushing it away.
Example: "The new marketing strategy is not just attracting customers, but also attracting away competitors."
Alternatives: "drawing away" or "pulling away".
From below, low-cost makers from China, such as Xiaomi, and new European brands, such as Wiko, are attacking Samsung's market, attracting away price-conscious customers.
The role of NGOs and aid agencies as influential actors in health workforce reconstruction is widely observed – both their roles as enablers (e.g. providing immediate care and emergency training) and constrainers (e.g. attracting away public sector staff, contributing to widening salary differentials, providing in-service training of variable quality).
"The real intangible assets are the chefs and the good ones get attracted away very quickly.
She's the daughter of a soldier who they attracted away from the western lifestyle.
Sodium citrate is an acid that will attract away those calcium molecules, leaving the proteins free to do their thing.
The former may be hard to attract away from the holy SoMo trinity of Snapchat, Instagram and WhatsApp, so that leaves the latter group.
Leahy reported what nobody else dared to: that the younger guys widely resented Jordan, for reasons that went beyond the attention and praise he attracted away from them.
One, William Baumol, a professor at New York University, argued that the "availability of lucrative positions in the governmental bureaucracy serves to attract away many individuals with entrepreneurial talent from roles that could contribute to the economy's production".He has a point.
When this gig was scheduled, how could anyone have been expected to know that an exclusively student audience might have their attention attracted away from matters comedic in the summer term?
But while the needs of the real campesinos living along the railway are going ignored, hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent on a high-speed train network for the notional people whom the government hopes one day to attract away from Venezuela's urban, industrial heartlands.
If a negative voltage is applied to the p-type side, implying a positive voltage applied to the n-type side, the holes in the p-type region will be attracted away from the p-n junction, as will the electrons on the n-type side.
