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curious

[kyoor-ee-uhs] / ˈkjʊər i əs /




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Still, I was curious to test their capabilities, so Pinkerton ushered a robot to my kitchen sink, where I had assembled a small selection of dishes that I deemed expendable.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

I’m curious how you arrived at the length of time he’d fill in for Grace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

But in his 20s, he became increasingly curious about his biological origins.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

The setup implies that Carrie—intellectually curious, a clandestine book reader, a guileless innocent for whom Ms. Howell makes us ache—is being liberated from Margaret’s fundamentalist penal colony.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

They are intensely curious and study each thing I do as I feed and take care of the dogs.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen


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