intrigue
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There will be no further information, only biting intrigue.
From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026
He was a 25-year-old tinkering with self-tanners, but all the intrigue and action seemed to be around the lab next door, with its strange music, flashing lights and tinfoil covering the porthole.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
Prediction markets are increasingly showing up in conversations about American culture, including Wall Street palace intrigue.
From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026
And I think that’s, to be honest, where the sort of intrigue or interest into that transportation into another.”
From MarketWatch • Mar. 4, 2026
"But does it not intrigue you," Miss Honey said, "that a little five-year-old child is reading long adult novels by Dickens and Hemingway? Doesn't that make you jump up and down with excitement?"
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
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