curiosity
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Zhu sought out films which touch on the era-defining event, but neither epic romance Summer Palace nor the secretly filmed gay drama Lan Yu could satisfy her curiosity.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
“Entry level is about curiosity and growth,” she says.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Visitors who’ve been drawn by nostalgia or curiosity to see it — and smell it — for themselves have molded over 3,000 sphinxes so far.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Fame was a byproduct of that curiosity, not the goal.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
Crick holds them up like a curiosity, then sets them on the tray along with our blood samples.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
At the bottom of some mezcal bottles sits one of the most recognizable curiosities in the world of spirits: a pale, curled "worm" preserved in alcohol.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2026
For a variety of reasons, not least because people have questions, curiosities, comparisons and resentments.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 13, 2026
In a preface, the film director Guillermo del Toro likens this collection to early modern cabinets of curiosities, whose juxtapositions of natural and artificial objects were meant to expose a hidden order of existence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Fragments of extraterrestrial material that have made their way to Earth have long inspired reverence among humans – some ending up as religious objects, others as curiosities for display.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2025
Though everyone in the house had been talking nonstop, it had mostly been to government agents, not to one another, and their own curiosities had yet to be satisfied.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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