alluring
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Maybe that’s why I find the song so alluring and why I’m able to connect with it so easily, despite my conflicting personal feelings.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
Captive in bucolic panopticons, their lives are at once aesthetically alluring, depressingly regressive and anthropologically fascinating.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
The promise of a more climate-friendly alternative to fossil fuels was alluring to Exxon—assuming the company could increase algae’s energy content enough to make it commercially viable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
Venturing into this world as a teen had an alluring "cool" factor for Dr Aiqing Wang, now a senior lecturer in Chinese at the University of Liverpool.
From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026
Candidates would need a degree of stenographic and typewriting skill, but what he most looked for and was so very adept at sensing was that alluring amalgam of isolation, weakness, and need.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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