tantalized

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Cancer vaccines have long tantalized and frustrated researchers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

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

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2023

The prospect of Latino voters coming to the polls in numbers proportional to their 40% share of the state’s population and transforming local and state races has tantalized activists and analysts for years.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2023

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

From Slate • Aug. 4, 2023

But the diary notation that most tantalized Dewey was unrelated to the Clutter-Rupp, Methodist-Catholic impasse.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote