tantalizing
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So-called leveraged exchange-traded funds offer a tantalizing prospect—to double, or sometimes triple, stock market moves.
From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026
He seemed like the sort of tantalizing five-star talent who could change not just the present but future of a program.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026
And yet the prospect of using origami to improve existing technologies is, for some, tantalizing.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026
This elusive, tantalizing novel aims for the effect of the raga—to conjure “the sadness, the richness, the pleasure of the waiting and the wandering.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
The storeroom yielded nothing more except the tantalizing fragrance from boxes and kegs all sealed and forbidden him.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Vocabulary lists containing tantalizing
The Giver
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The Things They Carried
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