beckon
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Adds Miyashita: "These puzzles beckon our curiosity. After all, spiral forms in nature have inspired human creations ranging from rotini pasta, to a barber's pole or even portrayals of the biblical 'Tower of Babel'."
From Science Daily β Sep. 1, 2026
But after the theatre and drama of Monday, the hard questions for the Labour Party and for Burnham beckon.
From BBC β Jun. 22, 2026
Venice’s legendary five-star hotels beckon those with unlimited budgets, but we hadn’t come to one of the world’s great walking cities to stay inside a hotel room.
From The Wall Street Journal β May 2, 2026
Ole Miss is flourishing under him but LSU and Florida beckon.
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 21, 2025
She could hear her voice, and the voice of another, and then saw a hand extended from within a stall to beckon Celaena inside.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
As summer turns to fall and conversations turn to gold statuettes, another Toronto International Film Festival beckons.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 11, 2026
Once the final track has been played, “F.I.G” beckons us to replay, revel in our emotions and dance once, maybe twice or thrice, more.
From Salon β Jun. 5, 2026
For the fortunate 26, opportunity beckons – England head to this tournament as one of the fancied few to lift the trophy in New Jersey on 19 July.
From BBC β May 21, 2026
Overseas opportunity still beckons for the concert industry, even as Americans feel the sting of high inflation and demand shows signs of returning to earth from the postpandemic peak.
From MarketWatch β May 6, 2026
He beckons to one of the unfamiliar people behind him.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
As a high-schooler Busby performed locally; a music career beckoned, but based on his academic performance an FBI recruiter offered him a position in the bureau’s fingerprinting lab.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 31, 2026
When Hollywood beckoned, the boys answered the call, cavorting, cutting up and reconfiguring reality on the silver screen.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 25, 2026
Over time, he and his apostles took on various ideologies, dropping them for new ones as times changed and power beckoned.
From Salon β Jun. 25, 2026
She raised their two sons in the African bush until serious schooling finally beckoned them back to the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal β May 8, 2026
At the first one the manservant, Das, stopped and beckoned us to enter.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
At the table beside mine, an older man kept beckoning strangers over to share his.
From Salon β Sep. 8, 2026
But for the most part, America has always been an optimistic nation, with the future beckoning a better day for everyone.
From Salon β Feb. 12, 2026
The grandmotherly driving of today’s Waymos conjures images of two, excessively polite Midwesterners locked at an intersection, each beckoning the other to go first, back and forth in perpetuity.
From The Wall Street Journal β Dec. 7, 2025
They were beckoning: Come here, come closer, stay longer, there’s so much to see.
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 6, 2025
Theodora’s hand tightened, and Eleanor caught her breath on a little sob—had something moved, ahead, something whiter than the white trees, beckoning?
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
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