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alluring

[uh-loor-ing] / əˈlʊər ɪŋ /


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There are more deaths in store in Ms. Zigman’s alluring tale of psychological disintegration.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Photographed by Manu Dacosse in a simple but alluring black and white, with similarly naturalistic production design by Katia Wyszkop, the film is exquisitely imagined without being self-aggrandizingly gorgeous.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 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

He so thrilled us with tales of the mines that he almost persuaded me that to be a miner was more alluring than to be a monarch.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela




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