tantalize

To tantalize and tease prospective viewers, the marketing team behind “Babygirl” has leaned all the way in, emphasizing the movie’s Christmas Day release in promotional materials that demand audiences “get everything you want” this holiday.

From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2024

In a year of exuberance and dread, songs came from every which way to comfort, to amuse, to haunt, to tantalize.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2024

No matter the answer, Gef has continued to vex and tantalize for decades.

From National Geographic ● Sep. 19, 2023

The words and beats tantalize the imagination and unleash emotions that have, for so many people, been stifled: joy, abandon.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022

The dense brown forest on either side never seemed to vary, and ahead there was only a new bend in the river to tantalize her.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

The possibility tantalizes the philosopher, but even more so the astronomer: planets around red dwarfs are easier to find than around any other type of star.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 14, 2023

The idea of an “all-female, gender-fluid, disability forward” staging of “Richard III” — as New York Classical Theater describes its new production of Shakespeare’s tragedy about the monstrously degenerate Plantagenet king — tantalizes.

From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

The result is a quick, comforting meal that tantalizes the taste buds.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 18, 2023

As for online dating itself, that's even worse because it tantalizes with the promise of connection, but in order to stay in business, the algorithm for these apps are designed to be ineffective.

From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2020

The gene provides an organizing principle for modern biology—and it tantalizes us with the prospect of controlling our bodies and fates.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

She kept fans tantalized with rumors that a penchant for long-sleeved shirts in her later years concealed two full sleeves of tattoos.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

Critics say he’s winging it, exaggerating wishes into declarations, tantalized by the bauble of a Nobel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

Back then, Ohtani’s 100-mph fastball and wicked off-speed repertoire had tantalized evaluators.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2025

I am far from alone in being tantalized by its promise.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2023

The business of the mattress box was one of the things that most tantalized Dewey.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

More tantalizing than unnerving, “Yaga,” adapted by Kat Sandler from her very successful stage play, is an exercise in mischief.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

The growing popularity of these products hinges on a tantalizing hook: bond-like yield payments that may, in some cases, exceed 15% as a target.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

"I think the great significance of these findings, and the tantalizing picture that it promotes, is a great motivation and reason to further examine solid-state nitrogen physics at very low temperatures," Umurhan said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

Consider “Coyote vs. Acme” a tantalizing pile of popcorn in the median.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

The results have been tantalizing, annoying, provocative, stimulating, and, at least until recently, substantially inconclusive.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan