beckon
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The result at Deanna Evans is a series of shrines through which eyes consider us or hands, clasped in prayer or curved in a blessing, beckon.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
The crypto surged past $100,000 in December 2024, on the expectation that the incoming administration would create a friendly regulatory environment and beckon in a so-called crypto golden age.
From Barron's • Nov. 24, 2025
Bars beckon along our path of modern-day “riau-riau music, the pipes shrill and the drums pounding,” and we dance our way in and out of a few joints, looking for the right madness.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025
Shops have stayed open even on holidays, and at dusk, dozens of cars line up the streets as a string of flashy signboards beckon shoppers into the flower-adorned stores.
From BBC • Oct. 17, 2025
Their ears, necks, fingers, and hands are heavy with yellow twenty-four-carat gold jewels as they beckon you over to their counters.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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