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beguile

[bih-gahyl] / bɪˈgaɪl /




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Edward Brooke-Hitching supplies all sorts of tidbits to beguile readers ages 7-9 in this entertaining compendium.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 21, 2025

You have to do so in such a way that allows the audience to come in to you, to beguile them, to charm them.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 27, 2025

In the years since, the pinwheels have continued to fascinate, beguile and confound us.

From Scientific American Aug. 18, 2023

English Heritage is not alone in its efforts to beguile visitors with historical treats.

From Salon Aug. 8, 2023

“Do you think you can beguile this conclave with your baubles and vanity? We are not so base as to be dazzled by shiny things.”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

In “Autumn Meeting,” a Budapest seductress beguiles an out-of-work jockey with romantic tales of love spurned.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 8, 2026

It trails across the ground, flutters in the air and beguiles you, just like this film.

From New York Times Mar. 28, 2024

You need a thing that beguiles its way into people’s lives and then beguiles them into becoming programmers.

From The Verge Mar. 8, 2022

Here, Cooke, a Manchester native, convincingly turns Irish as the spirited young woman who beguiles most everyone but always seems to have a hidden agenda.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 4, 2021

Nature in us, your deepest art beguiles, Stamping deep cunning in our frowns and smiles.

From The Constant Couple or, A Trip to the Jubilee by Farquhar, George

Yet this strangely compelling work has simultaneously beguiled and baffled art historians for generations, starting with the odd moment that Pontormo chose to depict in his innovative way, isolated from the rest of the narrative.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 27, 2026

When people suggest that California is not really America, we might wonder whether they have been beguiled by some mythic vision of America.

From Seattle Times Feb. 26, 2024

In the 18th century, the 13th duchess beguiled the painter Goya, who portrayed her several times.

From New York Times Jan. 17, 2024

But the summers of the Pacific Northwest beguiled him, along with an arty scene of kindred directors.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2023

I don’t leave others amazed, mystified, or utterly beguiled.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Portrayed by Golshifteh Farahani with a beguiling compassion clouded by a certain resignation, Nafisi sets out to teach her students “The Great Gatsby” but can’t avoid stepping on political landmines.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

But his highly anticipated return to the sci-fi summer blockbuster, the brilliant and beguiling “Disclosure Day,” is Spielberg’s most shameless appeal toward idealism yet.

From Salon Jun. 13, 2026

As we follow him, what seemed like a close look at a regional folk dance soon reveals itself as a magical realist journey that’s both beguiling and amusing.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 2026

He is asking for forgiveness for backing a faulty product, while also claiming to be a victim of its beguiling charms.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 2026

It was the great blue American sky, beguiling the grass upward.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen




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