fascinate
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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
Or is it only the archetypal Oedipus and Antigone who fascinate us?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
But the subject also appears to fascinate him.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025
These and other discoveries add details, which continue to fascinate me, to our understanding of how agriculture’s rise triggered the rise of agriculturally based complex societies in the ancient world.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
“It fascinates me to discover new people,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 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
What fascinates them both is the connection they say MPs appear to have with their constituents.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
It is said that sometimes he fascinates them, as the weasel does, by rolling and playing in the open, coming closer little by little until he can make a grab.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Eclipses have fascinated Andrew ever since he saw his first in St Agnes all those years ago.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
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
Bryan Henderson, 38, is likewise fascinated by the newcomer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
It is a spectacle that has fascinated people for centuries and one that conservationists are working hard to protect.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
There was something about the work that fascinated me: the flying sparks and the ringing anvil, the cherry-red metal and the roaring forge.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
By 1943, autism was used to describe children with "fascinating peculiarities" who weren't interested in the world around them.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The combination of her elusiveness and philanthropic largess makes “Last Days in Two Nations” a fascinating project to unpack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
It will be fascinating to see how they get on.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
It was fascinating to see what the past thought the future might bring,” reader Margaret Hardy writes of the 20th century classic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
It was tedious work, but it soon yielded fascinating conclusions.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
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