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alluring

[uh-loor-ing] / əˈlʊər ɪŋ /


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Captive in bucolic panopticons, their lives are at once aesthetically alluring, depressingly regressive and anthropologically fascinating.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Venturing into this world as a teen had an alluring "cool" factor for Dr Aiqing Wang, now a senior lecturer in Chinese at the University of Liverpool.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

Add it all together and gold looks ever-more alluring.

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026

A connoisseur of Western literature, the supreme leader has a pretty good grasp of how alluring and corrosive Occidental ideas and manners can be.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

Instead, when he’d met my gaze for a jolting moment, I’d seen life bursting through, chaotic and alluring beneath the shadow of the mask.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir




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