tantalized

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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

But they are tantalized by possibilities beyond the game.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2024

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

From Slate • Aug. 4, 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