enticement
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A year ago, Warner Bros. shares were trading at around $8, so the $31-per-share offer from Paramount was a strong enticement.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 23, 2026
He was planning to go home when he was approached by a Russian man with an alluring offer: work as a restaurant cook for the equivalent of $5,200 a month—a staggering enticement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
Oates leads us through Fox’s lurid world, drawing deliberately uncomfortable parallels between his calculated actions and the work of novelists and teachers, each of whom must also use enticement and enchantment to reach their mark.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2025
The amateur sleuthery means that the enticement still works even if there was nothing there to find.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2024
Yet there’s an enticement in this thing, it carries with it the childish allure of dressing up.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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