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
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
Tongue-tied and blushing, he sees the daughter of a millionaire shipowner and goes infatuate.
From Time Magazine Archive
But as the ancient sage shrewdly observed, dementation is the prelude of doom; "whom the gods destroy they first infatuate."
From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886. by Various
Peña’s final take on why Mexicans are so infatuated with the Smiths?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
These people have positioned themselves as trendsetters and their followers are infatuated with them as role models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 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
Hyde, who had now been infatuated with Rice for about a year, was confident they could wait.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
The idea of the infatuated Secret Admirer loomed large throughout the investigation.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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
There was a fascination, a spirit of infatuating ecstasy, in serving one whose steps had so often led to glory, that filled a man's entire heart.
From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever
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