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 pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were initialize and tantalize.

From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 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 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

But the performance that perhaps most tantalizes is Dianne Wiest as Winnie in Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days,” a play that recognizes no distinction between comedy and tragedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2019

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

A multiday music festival on the beach is a SoCal dream that has tantalized and vexed concert promoters for generations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Because for as many people as Byrd tantalized during her legendary cable run through the ’80s and ’90s, there were just as many who were outraged and scandalized by her sex-positive, queer-inclusive values.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

Cancer vaccines have long tantalized and frustrated researchers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

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

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2023

The possibility of that tantalized everyone, whether they liked football or not.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

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 ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

For many critics, it served as the tantalizing appetizer before the release of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” in 1967, a dazzling entrée if ever there were one.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

For those who’ve struggled with restrictive eating and anorexia, that can be a tantalizing proposition—and a dangerous one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

“Something better,” he says, attempting to be tantalizing.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood