tantalize

To tantalize and tease prospective viewers, the marketing team behind “Babygirl” has leaned all the way in, emphasizing the movie’s Christmas Day release in promotional materials that demand audiences “get everything you want” this holiday.

From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2024

In a year of exuberance and dread, songs came from every which way to comfort, to amuse, to haunt, to tantalize.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2024

No matter the answer, Gef has continued to vex and tantalize for decades.

From National Geographic ● Sep. 19, 2023

Invisible curls of hickory smoke tantalize your nostrils even before you take that first bite.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2023

The dense brown forest on either side never seemed to vary, and ahead there was only a new bend in the river to tantalize her.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

The possibility tantalizes the philosopher, but even more so the astronomer: planets around red dwarfs are easier to find than around any other type of star.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 14, 2023

As for online dating itself, that's even worse because it tantalizes with the promise of connection, but in order to stay in business, the algorithm for these apps are designed to be ineffective.

From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2020

Besides, you can only sit through so many kick-lines and dysfunctional family get-togethers before the idea that you might be made to think as well as to feel tantalizes.

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2020

And she’s gone to the” same notes with which the mysterious voice tantalizes her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2019

The atom provides an organizing principle for modern physics—and it tantalizes us with the prospect of controlling matter and energy.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Because for as many people as Byrd tantalized during her legendary cable run through the ’80s and ’90s, there were just as many who were outraged and scandalized by her sex-positive, queer-inclusive values.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

Critics say he’s winging it, exaggerating wishes into declarations, tantalized by the bauble of a Nobel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

Back then, Ohtani’s 100-mph fastball and wicked off-speed repertoire had tantalized evaluators.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2025

I am far from alone in being tantalized by its promise.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2023

The possibility of that tantalized everyone, whether they liked football or not.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

For many critics, it served as the tantalizing appetizer before the release of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” in 1967, a dazzling entrée if ever there were one.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

Gone are Aeolus’ bag of winds, which sends Odysseus back out to sea with Ithaca in tantalizing sight, and the Phaeacians, who help him finally make it home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

The get-rich ethos that defines our time may be only rivaled by our perilously tantalizing obsession with vengeance.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026

Big tech reining in its AI spending may be a tantalizing prospect for some.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

All of these tantalizing clues make it likely that Jomon people were starting to practice some slash-and-burn agriculture, but it was evidently in a casual way that made only a minor contribution to their diet.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond