fascinate
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He’s a student of life as much as he is filmmaking, a humanist who forges connections with spectacular sights of the things that frighten and fascinate us the most.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
In Italy, where she has no public role, Catherine seemed to fascinate people.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
The family continues to fascinate the American psyche several decades and generations later.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
But the subject also appears to fascinate him.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025
Skeeter refuses to give any more away on this intriguing subject, so we turn instead to the relationship that will undoubtedly fascinate her readers more than any other.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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As a writer who is both gay and old enough to have watched the internet explode into the nefarious monster it’s become, the way language transforms online both irks and fascinates me.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
"Their war cry is 'let's live life, let's live it healthily, let's live well,' and obviously this fascinates me."
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
Despite being so vocal, Cudi still retains a mystique quality that fascinates fans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
In elite sports real struggle is rarely physical; it’s always in the brain, and that fascinates me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
“Fascinating. Yeah, I know. You always look like someone’s sucked the life right out of you when something fascinates you.”
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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He has also been fascinated by reptiles for most of his life and has long supported zoos, museums, and natural history.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
He was fascinated by the camera operators who followed his Mudcats exploits and asked them to teach him how they worked.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
“I’ve always been fascinated by deep-sea animals,” Pereira said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
"I'm fascinated by doing things that people say can't be done."
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
This fascinated me in a repulsive kind of way, and I couldn’t stop looking at his hands.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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Stevens digs into the drink’s history and tells a fascinating tale about Prohibition and the delicious outcome of cultural fusion between the U.S. and Mexico.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2026
"Seeing a substantial increase in repetitions without the athletes feeling like they were exerting themselves any harder is a fascinating psychobiological outcome."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
But it also sheds a fascinating light on the wider topic of literary afterlives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The Peasant’s Revolt of 1381 is a fascinating moment because it’s a time when the notion of democracy wasn’t even a twinkle in a feudal servant’s eye.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Here was Zheng, a total stranger from another world, with a wildly fascinating story that was creeping closer and closer to home with every word.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
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