tantalized
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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
Cancer vaccines have long tantalized and frustrated researchers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
But they are tantalized by possibilities beyond the game.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
The prospect of Latino voters coming to the polls in numbers proportional to their 40% share of the state’s population and transforming local and state races has tantalized activists and analysts for years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2023
But the diary notation that most tantalized Dewey was unrelated to the Clutter-Rupp, Methodist-Catholic impasse.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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