intrigue
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The league already ceded its regular season to the offseason, leaning into free agency drama as a driving source of year-round intrigue, letting team-building trump teamwork.
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026
But a narrative throughline hellbent on retribution neatly threads Harris’ fiery aesthetic choices together, giving “Is God Is” far more substance — and much more thematic intrigue — than its contemporaries.
From Salon • May 19, 2026
The constituency, which is home to around 76,000 voters and made up suburbs of Wigan and former mining towns and villages, has not traditionally been a hotbed of political intrigue.
From BBC • May 15, 2026
Fittingly, “Across the Ages” raises more questions than it answers—an openness that’s part of the intrigue.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
These would be likely to intrigue the soothsayer and lure her out of hiding, if she happened to be in earshot.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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