tantalize
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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 β Dec. 30, 2024
No matter the answer, Gef has continued to vex and tantalize for decades.
From National Geographic β Sep. 19, 2023
It’s a statement, all right — not a confirmation or a denial, but a seizing of the moment to tantalize the world with possibility: So what if they were?
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 23, 2023
The words and beats tantalize the imagination and unleash emotions that have, for so many people, been stifled: joy, abandon.
From Washington Post β 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 β 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 β Jun. 27, 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 β Feb. 27, 2020
And she’s gone to the” same notes with which the mysterious voice tantalizes her.
From Los Angeles Times β Dec. 3, 2019
The atom provides an organizing principle for modern physics—and it tantalizes us with the prospect of controlling matter and energy.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
A multiday music festival on the beach is a SoCal dream that has tantalized and vexed concert promoters for generations.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 2, 2026
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 β Aug. 25, 2026
Cancer vaccines have long tantalized and frustrated researchers.
From The Wall Street Journal β Mar. 17, 2026
The idea has tantalized urban planners and utopian dreamers for centuries.
From New York Times β Aug. 31, 2023
Pitezel’s almost hallucinatory description must have tantalized Holmes, for he wrote to Cigrand and offered her a job as his personal secretary, at twice the salary she was making in Keeley.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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 β 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 β Sep. 17, 2026
But it can still lay claim to being a flagship roller coaster, one with enough mechanical and storytelling hitches to give it a tantalizing oddness.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 11, 2026
Parton did not offer specifics about how such arrangements could work, or how her estate would handle the rights issues, but it offers the tantalizing prospect of Parton tunes for years to come.
From Barron's β Aug. 26, 2026
He trotted off determinedly in the direction of the tantalizing smell.
From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford
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