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tempting

adjective as in alluring, inviting

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It's a tempting fiction because it allows progressives to feel a measure of control over the situation.

From Salon

Responding to this question with my desired outcome is perhaps naive, a little like tempting fate with my refusal to let myself commit intellectually to the alternative.

From Slate

Blind boxes are in high demand: The packages are sealed and contain a random product from a collection, injecting an element of surprise and tempting customers to buy boxes over and over until they get the exact figure they want.

Savory or sweet, spicy or safe, these delicious and terribly tempting treats will give you delicious ideas … just like the show does.

It may be tempting to dismiss the possibility that a rarely enforced 18th-century law that specifically provides that it can only be used when there is “a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government” could be employed to deploy the military on U.S. soil to seize, detain, and deport immigrants.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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