infatuate
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The fictional robots of cinema are useful machines with dark potential to infatuate, deceive and destroy human beings.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 27, 2017
Yet one number continues to confound and infatuate them: five.
From BusinessWeek ● Apr. 2, 2014
Tongue-tied and blushing, he sees the daughter of a millionaire shipowner and goes infatuate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chuck Crawford, who combined the curly poll and hyperthyroid eyes of Huey Long with the minnesinging methods of "Pappy" O'Daniel, was crook and virtuoso enough to infatuate Tyler.
From Time Magazine Archive
And yet no warning, When I infatuate went down to be Procuress of myself to the world's desire, Did God blaze on my blindness, no rebuke.
From Emblems Of Love by Lascelles Abercrombie
The vehicle was carrying the girl he was infatuated with and her date.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
“Renoir” takes place in 1987 specifically because that’s the year she turned 11, and, like her protagonist, she was infatuated with “Little Irène.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Inde Navarrette has earned particular plaudits for her role as a young woman who becomes dangerously infatuated with a man, played by Michael Johnston, after he makes a magical wish for her affection.
From Barron's ● May 31, 2026
If we were then the logical thing to do would be for insiders to bring hundreds of companies public to sell to naive investors infatuated with AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
In spite of the fact that he was often be wildered and scandalized, he was still as infatuated as he had been that first Sabbath morning.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
Its rollout led with “Ace Trumpets” and the infatuating “So Be It.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025
On these occasions he’d shoot me an infatuating little smile.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2019
Listening to a great podcast can feel like falling into conversation with a new best friend or eavesdropping on an infatuating crush.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2016
Shelley's charisma is here, as well as his unpredictable moods; Claire Clairmont is infatuating and infuriating in equal measure.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2013
His address was infatuating: but there was a certain airiness, indicative of vanity, that revealed his great characteristic.
From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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