- present participle of beguile.
beguiling
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This, and a range of other publications hailing Asia’s economic “miracle” led Edwards to conclude “too many people believed the beguiling narrative” and as a consequence, “lent these economies cheap, abundant capital which was misallocated.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
“Cast Away” is a masterwork of creative fiction, employing historical scholarship, biblical allusions and Jungian psychology to deliver one of the most beguiling survival stories ever written.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
But his highly anticipated return to the sci-fi summer blockbuster, the brilliant and beguiling “Disclosure Day,” is Spielberg’s most shameless appeal toward idealism yet.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
And while this isn’t a band of virtuosos, they are artists who figured out how to create something beguiling and bracingly original.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
They almost forgot about eleven o’clock, the mud pie making was so beguiling.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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