infatuate
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The fictional robots of cinema are useful machines with dark potential to infatuate, deceive and destroy human beings.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 27, 2017
Yet one number continues to confound and infatuate them: five.
From BusinessWeek ● Apr. 2, 2014
Tongue-tied and blushing, he sees the daughter of a millionaire shipowner and goes infatuate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chuck Crawford, who combined the curly poll and hyperthyroid eyes of Huey Long with the minnesinging methods of "Pappy" O'Daniel, was crook and virtuoso enough to infatuate Tyler.
From Time Magazine Archive
Why this infatuate thirst for sympathy, this eagerness to violate the seals of reticence at the wish of a strange woman?
From The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance
Late in life, Darwin became infatuated with earthworms, a fitting preoccupation for an aging naturalist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
What’s more, Flynn became infatuated with another 18-year-old, Nora Eddington, who worked at the cigarette-and-snack counter of the criminal courts building where he was standing trial.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
She began with “Maggots for Brains,” a song about being so infatuated you can’t focus when your partner is away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
Inde Navarrette has earned particular plaudits for her role as a young woman who becomes dangerously infatuated with a man, played by Michael Johnston, after he makes a magical wish for her affection.
From Barron's ● May 31, 2026
Usually I hate it when artists get too infatuated with light, but this is special.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
Its rollout led with “Ace Trumpets” and the infatuating “So Be It.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025
On these occasions he’d shoot me an infatuating little smile.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2019
Listening to a great podcast can feel like falling into conversation with a new best friend or eavesdropping on an infatuating crush.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2016
Shelley's charisma is here, as well as his unpredictable moods; Claire Clairmont is infatuating and infuriating in equal measure.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2013
Congratulate me, my friend, that I have thus overcome my feelings, and repelled the infatuating wiles of a deceitful girl.
From The Coquette The History of Eliza Wharton by Hannah Webster Foster
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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