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Edward Brooke-Hitching supplies all sorts of tidbits to beguile readers ages 7-9 in this entertaining compendium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

In the years since, the pinwheels have continued to fascinate, beguile and confound us.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 18, 2023

English Heritage is not alone in its efforts to beguile visitors with historical treats.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2023

His prose is vibrant, at times it is too slick for its own good, but when he gets the balance right, his words thrill and beguile.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2023

“Do you think you can beguile this conclave with your baubles and vanity? We are not so base as to be dazzled by shiny things.”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Hitchcock beguiles us into sympathizing with the psychopathic Bruno.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

It’s an idea that always beguiles but never delivers.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2024

You need a thing that beguiles its way into people’s lives and then beguiles them into becoming programmers.

From The Verge ● Mar. 8, 2022

This movie — the story of how she returns home — beguiles and fascinates on several levels.

From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2020

In a case of desperate ennui, wearied with studying and talking, the sea wall is a delightful lounge, and the blue Mediterranean plays the witch to the indolent fancy, and beguiles it well.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis

The quest for a stable global order has long beguiled idealists and realists alike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

In the 18th century, the 13th duchess beguiled the painter Goya, who portrayed her several times.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

It didn’t take long before the collecting passion had seized hold in earnest and I found myself beguiled by the decorative arts of yesteryear.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2023

You’re beguiled into believing that there is nothing this actress can’t do.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2023

“Oh, I see. I’m the wicked Grisha seductress. I have beguiled you with my Grisha wiles!”

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

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

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

He meets his slightly older schoolmate Olympia, one of Eggers’ most beguiling creations, when she implores him to scrawl scatological bathroom graffiti on a playground structure in Old-English typography.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

The smell of the snacks filled the street, sweet and beguiling.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead