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
Various their judgments were, but none believed That he had slain him wittingly, nor saw Th’ infatuate men fate hov’ring o’er them all.
From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper
Late in life, Darwin became infatuated with earthworms, a fitting preoccupation for an aging naturalist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
She began with “Maggots for Brains,” a song about being so infatuated you can’t focus when your partner is away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
Inde Navarrette has earned particular plaudits for her leading role as a young woman who becomes hauntingly infatuated with a man, played by Michael Johnston, after he makes a magical wish for her affection.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
So infatuated was he with California that one British political commentator dubbed the Cameron administration’s philosophy ”Thatcherism on a surfboard.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Usually I hate it when artists get too infatuated with light, but this is special.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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
And my observations on these people have constantly instructed me that indulgence in this infatuating cant is more deeply associated with depravity and continuance in vice than is generally supposed.
From A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Watkin Tench
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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