tantalize

To tantalize and tease prospective viewers, the marketing team behind “Babygirl” has leaned all the way in, emphasizing the movie’s Christmas Day release in promotional materials that demand audiences “get everything you want” this holiday.

From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2024

No matter the answer, Gef has continued to vex and tantalize for decades.

From National Geographic ● Sep. 19, 2023

It’s a statement, all right — not a confirmation or a denial, but a seizing of the moment to tantalize the world with possibility: So what if they were?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2023

Such cries of anguish tantalize media moguls, more than a few of whom spent the past year wooing Moonbug’s top executives.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2022

The dense brown forest on either side never seemed to vary, and ahead there was only a new bend in the river to tantalize her.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

The possibility tantalizes the philosopher, but even more so the astronomer: planets around red dwarfs are easier to find than around any other type of star.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 14, 2023

As for online dating itself, that's even worse because it tantalizes with the promise of connection, but in order to stay in business, the algorithm for these apps are designed to be ineffective.

From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2020

Besides, you can only sit through so many kick-lines and dysfunctional family get-togethers before the idea that you might be made to think as well as to feel tantalizes.

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2020

But the performance that perhaps most tantalizes is Dianne Wiest as Winnie in Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days,” a play that recognizes no distinction between comedy and tragedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2019

The gene provides an organizing principle for modern biology—and it tantalizes us with the prospect of controlling our bodies and fates.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

She kept fans tantalized with rumors that a penchant for long-sleeved shirts in her later years concealed two full sleeves of tattoos.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

Cancer vaccines have long tantalized and frustrated researchers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

But they are tantalized by possibilities beyond the game.

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

The prospect of Latino voters coming to the polls in numbers proportional to their 40% share of the state’s population and transforming local and state races has tantalized activists and analysts for years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2023

Pitezel’s almost hallucinatory description must have tantalized Holmes, for he wrote to Cigrand and offered her a job as his personal secretary, at twice the salary she was making in Keeley.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Consider “Coyote vs. Acme” a tantalizing pile of popcorn in the median.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Parton did not offer specifics about how such arrangements could work, or how her estate would handle the rights issues, but it offers the tantalizing prospect of Parton tunes for years to come.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

That only made Coca-Cola and 7-Up more tantalizing to my siblings and me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

For many critics, it served as the tantalizing appetizer before the release of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” in 1967, a dazzling entrée if ever there were one.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

But he’d never had any inkling of what he now sensed lay beyond that tantalizing door.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor