tantalizing
Example Sentences
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So-called leveraged exchange-traded funds offer a tantalizing prospect—to double, or sometimes triple, stock market moves.
From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026
And yet the prospect of using origami to improve existing technologies is, for some, tantalizing.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026
A journey into the wilderness of 18th-century Canada starts with a tantalizing mineral sample brought back to an English outpost.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
They’re inspiring and tantalizing, each salad photo a beautiful showcase of visual media at its finest.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026
But he’d never had any inkling of what he now sensed lay beyond that tantalizing door.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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