tantalizing
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This is the tantalizing question underpinning Adam Phillips’s essay collection “The Life You Want.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
And yet the prospect of using origami to improve existing technologies is, for some, tantalizing.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026
His precious moments are not memories of an idealized past, nor projections of a tantalizing dream, but interventions in our complex present that reveal beautiful and unsettling layers.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026
They’re inspiring and tantalizing, each salad photo a beautiful showcase of visual media at its finest.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026
The storeroom yielded nothing more except the tantalizing fragrance from boxes and kegs all sealed and forbidden him.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Vocabulary lists containing tantalizing
The Giver
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"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl
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The Things They Carried
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