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While the first four days are for the industry only, the weekend and Monday are open to the public, with organisers seeking to seduce a new generation of younger buyers.

From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026

I also have questions for you about conscious or unconscious bias: What actual evidence do you have that this woman is trying to seduce your father?

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 1, 2025

And these sites seduce Americans with power and respect to say out loud stupid—and sometimes vile—things to please a loud and angry fringe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025

Charlie doesn’t cook to impress or seduce; he cooks because his body demands sustenance, and this is what makes sense to him.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2025

It is possible, too, that Holmes simply offered the attorney cash for the information, or deployed his false warmth and teary regret to seduce the attorney into revealing the group’s mounting consensus.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

When Sue Nyathi sent her debut novel The Polygamist to publishers, "they thought there was no market for the book" about a married Zimbabwean man and the women he seduces, she says.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Danielle Pinnock’s character, a Jamaican woman who is taken to America by a wizened older man she refers to as the “old raisin,” has a brassy boldness and bawdiness that also seduces the audience’s affections.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

"This is a collective success by the whole country that perfectly demonstrates Spain's enormous attractivity, because Spain is a country that seduces the world," he said.

From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026

Fennell captures all the bad behavior in a way that seduces viewers, but also makes them complicit in the manipulation.

From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2023

It is the magic of the future, and not that of the past, which seduces us.”

From The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

And both Mr. Ralph, as Mia’s husband, Barry, who is most seduced by dreams of tech millions, and Mr. Tippett as Paul give fine portraits of men on the cusp of middle-aged anxiety.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Top among them are the United States, where Americans on both coasts enjoy the cocktail hour staple -- but whose interior has yet to be seduced by the spritz.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

Take “Avatar,” which seduced audiences with its immersive 3D format so intensely that some viewers reported experiencing depression returning to the real world.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

Del Toro’s “The Shape of Water” starred a boyfriend from the Black Lagoon who seduced voters into awarding it best picture and best director in 2018.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026

Farmer was particularly seduced by the Creole language, a blend of French and various African languages, unique to Haiti.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

The arrival of AI tools for music is both seducing and unsettling the music world.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026

Ghosts have infested a wealthy widow’s factory and are possessing appliances, seducing her son and cozying up to the prime minister for favors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

Provided Mencken's declared victory survives the inevitable legal challenges, that means Roman is continuing his father's business model of seducing presidents to fatten the corporate bottom line.

From Salon ● May 20, 2023

“Everyday Play: A Campaign Against Boredom” from London design press Redstone has lately been seducing customers from its place of pride by the front door.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2023

The smell of barbecue sauce was seeping from the window upstairs, seducing the whole hood.

From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds