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fascinate

[fas-uh-nayt] / ˈfæs əˌneɪt /


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And with a memoir like this it will be the extra details that will fascinate people.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

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

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

“Maybe I make it too complicated, but it’s what fascinates me as an academic. … I think about my own life when I reflect on all of these questions,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026

That soccer thrives on the genius and physical prowess of human beings, which also means that the possibility of failure makes it profoundly dramatic, fascinates Luna.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 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

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

“Your Handdara fascinates me, Harth, but now and then I wonder if it isn’t simply paradox developed into a way of life....”

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

Krakow's Main Market Square remained sealed off Sunday as mourners brought candles in tribute to six people killed by a gunman who authorities said was "fascinated by far-right ideologies".

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

Although the star has fascinated astronomers for generations, it attracted worldwide attention in late 2019 and early 2020 when its brightness unexpectedly plunged to its lowest recorded level in more than 100 years.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

“It just fascinated me that he put it in this novel apropos of nothing else,” Crook said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

In contrast, Cardi B is a history buff fascinated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s presidency and the lasting impact of Eleanor Roosevelt.

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026

The scene fascinated Laura Keene and stimulated her theatrical instincts.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

The result is a fascinating collection of American folk beliefs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2026

These and many other fascinating narrative details don’t add up to a grand narrative arc, but Mr. Delves Broughton’s account is instructive all the same.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Yet a fascinating element of “Godzilla Minus Zero” — as well as director Hideaki Anno’s 2016 “Shin Godzilla” — is how they make a point of featuring saviors who are adamantly dull.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

"All our work group chats immediately blew up. Everyone started messaging each other, discussing what was happening. And what I found fascinating was how quickly we turned the whole thing into a joke."

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

My father hovered with the rest of them and said "fascinating" twice.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg


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