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fascinate

[fas-uh-nayt] / 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

In Italy, where she has no public role, Catherine seemed to fascinate people.

From BBC ● May 14, 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

“You never know what will fascinate them,” he said.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

“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

But it is what lies beneath that fascinates him most.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

“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

It fascinates me to see the Youns courting girls in public, for in the Khmer culture these things are done in secret.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

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

Poland's Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński said "everything suggests" the suspect was "fascinated by far-right ideologies" and held ultra-nationalist views.

From BBC ● 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

“Black Zombie” opens with a truth that has long escaped those fascinated by the shambling undead.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

Some of the doorways were occupied by fascinated teachers in their empty classrooms.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

The origin story of the Statue of Liberty and the long saga of her construction and installation are the subject of a fascinating exhibition at Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, “Auguste Bartholdi: Liberty Enlightening the World.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

As always, a conversation with Moby is a fascinating journey, from lessons on fame to tales of hanging with David Bowie and Lou Reed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

The latest evidence comes from a fascinating new research study, which shows how nearly 3 million American workers have navigated the perilous polarization and “hashtag hell” of the past decade.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

Prof Barker said: "It is fascinating to have evidence for both compassion and violence amongst Neanderthals, our closest evolutionary cousins, embodied in this one individual."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

This was the part where you were supposed to say something fascinating, if you were the sort of person that had fascinating things to say.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu


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