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fascinate

[fas-uh-neyt] / ˈfæs əˌneɪt /


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He’s a student of life as much as he is filmmaking, a humanist who forges connections with spectacular sights of the things that frighten and fascinate us the most.

From Salon Jun. 28, 2026

And maybe that is the reason why Monroe continues to fascinate.

From Los Angeles Times May 28, 2026

Female friendships fascinate Tessa Thompson—especially the ones that go awry.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 12, 2026

But the subject also appears to fascinate him.

From Barron's Oct. 30, 2025

Her neighbors despise the creatures that fascinate her.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman

“It fascinates me to discover new people,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times May 11, 2026

As a writer who is both gay and old enough to have watched the internet explode into the nefarious monster it’s become, the way language transforms online both irks and fascinates me.

From Salon May 10, 2026

"Their war cry is 'let's live life, let's live it healthily, let's live well,' and obviously this fascinates me."

From Barron's May 5, 2026

In elite sports real struggle is rarely physical; it’s always in the brain, and that fascinates me.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 12, 2026

It fascinates us, but it rules the Gethenians, dominates them.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

He admitted to being fascinated by fire, and that "things that go through fire experience a kind of rebirth," a detective said in the document.

From Barron's Aug. 7, 2026

Greta Lee and Edmund Donovan star alongside the actor in this adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s novella about a group of intellectuals fascinated with a once-celebrated writer who now works at a post office.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

His character is naturally fascinated by the dinosaur park but soon realises the reptiles are breeding, after discovering broken dinosaur eggshells and baby footprints in the jungle.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

This material belongs to the class of strange metals, which have long fascinated physicists because they display unusual quantum properties that remain only partly understood.

From Science Daily Jul. 8, 2026

They were fascinated by the motion of the waves, and they giggled at the sounds of the sloshing water.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

Any talk of changing the rules, salary cap or otherwise, to put reins on this kind of success would propagate underperformance and penalize this fascinating culture of constant improvement.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 8, 2026

How long can the fascinating variety at the top of the women’s tour persist?

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

"We've seen a lot of fascinating landscapes through Curiosity's eyes, but this sea of polygons took our breath away," said the mission's project scientist, Ashwin Vasavada of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.

From Science Daily Aug. 1, 2026

Root's return is a fascinating one, though perhaps not overly surprising given the lack of viable options available.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

There were always more fascinating things to watch and record, more people to help write everything down.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall




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