- present participle of beguile.
beguiling
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Something of the same process holds with the short stories collected in “20 Over 60,” a beguiling if uneven compendium of pieces written by 20 authors in their later years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
This, and a range of other publications hailing Asia’s economic “miracle” led Edwards to conclude “too many people believed the beguiling narrative” and as a consequence, “lent these economies cheap, abundant capital which was misallocated.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
In very different registers, three other films were equally beguiling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
But his highly anticipated return to the sci-fi summer blockbuster, the brilliant and beguiling “Disclosure Day,” is Spielberg’s most shameless appeal toward idealism yet.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
For several reasons, however, this beguiling depiction cannot be summarily dismissed.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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