curiosity
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But restrictions often pique readers' curiosity and could introduce them to Rooney and other Irish writers, Doherty said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
McGonagle's curiosity was stirred while her toddlers were watching television.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
To most people, Bored Apes and their nonfungible token brethren, such as Pudgy Penguins and CryptoPunks, are a curiosity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
But few things attract attention like professional sports, and the curiosity of folks from a Milwaukee team helping out L.A. might have helped grow a Brewers fan base far from Wisconsin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
“Just out of curiosity, what would you like to be called?”
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
"Until relatively recently, this subset of igneous rocks were mere curiosities," said Gibson.
From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026
Well, Wild London is abundant with animal curiosities: from pigeons hopping on to the Hammersmith and City line to a snake colony by a canal.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025
In a preface, the film director Guillermo del Toro likens this collection to early modern cabinets of curiosities, whose juxtapositions of natural and artificial objects were meant to expose a hidden order of existence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Hawke doesn’t overload their delicate dances or any of his other scene partnerships with an insistence on pulling the spotlight, true to his character’s unspoken self-regard as a guide who happens to investigate his curiosities.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2025
Then, isolate the wonderments, the curiosities of his death; they will help you to see.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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"Seventh Grade" by Gary Soto
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