beguiling
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Few embody a tortured, beguiling Americana quite like her.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
From Nana, Sadia heard beguiling stories about her grandmother’s young life in Bombay and later years in Karachi, Pakistan, where she fled after the 1947 Partition of India.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
“They’re beguiling, social and bold,” she says of the animals.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
Jareth is an illusionist as beguiling and seductive as he is sinister, caressing bubbles and gravity-defiant glass spheres with liquid grace.
From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026
The smell of the snacks filled the street, sweet and beguiling.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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