intrigues
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If the idea of moving into a university retirement community intrigues you, take these steps before signing a contract:
From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026
"I just take what intrigues me from different genres and different moods and apply them to the stories I want to tell."
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
The reader’s patience pays off, however: Soon the plot becomes more intricate and the intrigues become truly threatening.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025
From the start, “The Gilded Age” has taken care to authentically depict Peggy’s narrative trajectory without denying the same juicy intrigues coloring other characters’ lives.
From Salon • Aug. 11, 2025
So our little intrigues played out while women whispered over the backs of the sofas and men, after supper, passed the port and listened to tales of the wars against the French and the Indians.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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