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

Italy has one of the world’s oldest populations, including multiple pockets of centenarians who tantalize researchers searching for the fountain of youth.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2024

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

From National Geographic ● Sep. 19, 2023

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

They have also answered a longstanding question: What is the source of that floating fashion that so tantalizes Wilbur?

From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2022

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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2025

The idea has tantalized urban planners and utopian dreamers for centuries.

From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2023

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

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

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

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

The idea of teaming up with Garrett turned out to be so tantalizing that it tempted one of the NFL’s all-time great pass rushers to mull coming out of retirement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Gone are Aeolus’ bag of winds, which sends Odysseus back out to sea with Ithaca in tantalizing sight, and the Phaeacians, who help him finally make it home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

For all the tantalizing and provocative character of the Viking results, I know a hundred places on Mars which are far more interesting than our landing sites.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan