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lure

[loor] / lʊər /




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Four initial lounges are being built as the airline hopes to lure fliers to a new high-end credit card it plans to launch next year.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

To lure investors, according to the Wall Street Journal, Anthropic will promise that revenue opportunities are above $30 trillion.

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

One threat those higher yields pose is that they can lure investors away from perceived riskier stocks.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

Lisa was standing on top of a Warner Bros. soundstage ready to open the box of prop ashes, to allow them to float over “Old Hollywood,” a lure that Mickey loved.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

You can even use my green and yellow sparkle lure.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

The group used pheromone lures "which mimic the scent given off by the female moth to attract males" to look for it.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

"We suspect during the final construction stage the spider adds a pheromone that specifically lures worker ants and induces an aggressive attack, triggering the snare," said Professor Narendra.

From Science Daily Jun. 26, 2026

Known as the “Danish capital of America,” the city lures in more than one million tourists a year, generating around $9 million annual in hotel and sales tax revenue, according to the New York Post.

From MarketWatch Jun. 23, 2026

Despite the lures, profitability is elusive, said George Seremwe, president of the Zimbabwe Tobacco Growers Association.

From Barron's May 15, 2026

“The scent lures you in close so it can eat you,” says Dylan.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

It just had to be lured out into the open.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2026

She says she would often make purchases on TikTok or Instagram when she was "tired" or "bored", lured by the latest trends on her feeds.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

He said he was lured with an invitation to a purported meeting called by Rocha.

From Barron's Aug. 21, 2026

Fulton lured 40 friends and relatives on board and chugged all the way to Albany and back, covering 300 miles in 62 hours—an astounding pace of nearly 5 miles an hour.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

At the edges of town, ancient-looking cottages stood abandoned and roofless, evidence of a shrinking population, children lured away from centuries-old fishing and farming traditions by more glamorous opportunities elsewhere.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

The state’s light regulation and low taxes are luring dozens of big companies.

From Barron's Aug. 8, 2026

One of his biggest accomplishments was luring Adolph out of retirement.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

They allege Lucky Strike uses a monopoly scheme to gobble up mom-and-pop bowling alleys and transform them into a “mousetrap” model, luring people in just to upcharge them on shoe rentals and concessions.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

A celebrity’s ties to a property would create instant buzz—and served as a sure-fire tactic for luring in a line of prospective buyers.

From MarketWatch Jun. 3, 2026

This can keep the reader off balance, luring her into wrong guesses about a sentence’s structure.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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