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plural counterattractions
Something that vies for the attention of a person or thing in competition with something else; a rival for preference. quotations examples
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief — call it what you will — than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.
1988: James B. Simpson, Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, № 4,393 (Houghton Mifflin