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alluring

[uh-loor-ing] / əˈlʊər ɪŋ /


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The promise of a big yield may sound alluring.

From Barron's • May 5, 2026

Captive in bucolic panopticons, their lives are at once aesthetically alluring, depressingly regressive and anthropologically fascinating.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Venturing into this world as a teen had an alluring "cool" factor for Dr Aiqing Wang, now a senior lecturer in Chinese at the University of Liverpool.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

Nobel Prize-winning Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek helped Ottinger, 83, write the script, which is set in some of Vienna's most alluring locations.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

Truth was a changing display in a shop window, manipulated by hands when you weren’t looking, alluring and ever out of reach.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead




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