enrapt

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Readers less enrapt about the details of these might find themselves skimming sections about them, or those about operating-system updates and later iMac models.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

“Every awarded filmmaker and artist in every category will still have the celebratory ‘Oscar moment’ they deserve on the stage of the Dolby, facing an enrapt audience.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2022

And then there's Sly and the Family Stone, performing their counterculture masterwork "Everyday People" with the kind of gusto that can only be achieved in front of a sea of enrapt concertgoers.

From Salon • Jul. 2, 2021

Over the next four pages, you watch enrapt as Brusatte outfits the sauropods with the features crucial to their humongousness.

From Washington Post • Jun. 1, 2018

One whom we loved has fall'n asleep, Not died; although her calm be deep, Some new, unknown, and strange surprise In Heaven holds enrapt her eyes.

From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Howells, William Dean