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
The infatuate impulse prevailed, to confess and take the consequences.
From Nobody by Jacobs, W. L.
Inde Navarrette has earned particular plaudits for her leading role as a young woman who becomes hauntingly infatuated with a man, played by Michael Johnston, after he makes a magical wish for her affection.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
And if you were my friend, what I would say to you is this — are you truly infatuated with your co-worker, or do you just see them 40 hours a week?
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
If we were then the logical thing to do would be for insiders to bring hundreds of companies public to sell to naive investors infatuated with AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
Prosecutor Corinne Bramwell said Morgan, who was aged 17 at the time of the offences, was infatuated and inspired by Rudakubana.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026
In spite of the fact that he was often be wildered and scandalized, he was still as infatuated as he had been that first Sabbath morning.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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
What infatuating creatures are these women, when they thus soothe and calm the tumults of an angry heart!
From Pamela, Volume II by Richardson, Samuel
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