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alluring

[uh-loor-ing] / əˈlʊər ɪŋ /


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Captive in bucolic panopticons, their lives are at once aesthetically alluring, depressingly regressive and anthropologically fascinating.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Venturing into this world as a teen had an alluring "cool" factor for Dr Aiqing Wang, now a senior lecturer in Chinese at the University of Liverpool.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

Nobel Prize-winning Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek helped Ottinger, 83, write the script, which is set in some of Vienna's most alluring locations.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

One travels to see alluring sights: I’ve had my eye on Mexico City for a long time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

The Cold Storage building wasn’t nearly as alluring as the Court of Honor or the midway.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros




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