beguilement

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Noun
  • The 2000s brought works centered around cars and boats, subjects of lifelong fascination for Grosvenor.
    News Desk, Artforum, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The hearing was the third in as many years in the halls of Congress since fiery testimony in July 2023 reignited public fascination in UFOs – not to mention the possibility that aliens are piloting them.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The number of reports of online enticement, a category that includes sextortion, grew by more than 300% between 2021 and 2023.
    Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • In the Song of Songs (sometimes referred to as the Song of Solomon or the Canticle of Canticles), a poem in the Hebrew Bible about two lovers, the fruit remains connected to beauty, love, and enticement.
    Demir Alp, JSTOR Daily, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Private Money, Public Breakthroughs To call Saad Bhamla and his seven co-recipients polymaths is more than flattery.
    John Drake, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • In aggregate, users favored responses full of agreement and flattery.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • That’s the enchantment of Dream Lake, one of Luray Caverns’ most famous sights.
    Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The Cortège gestures toward that transcendence, but too often settles for the kind of veiled enchantment that follows us home through our screens.
    David Hochman, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • By the end of the film, a running joke where Resident 5B, due to his thick Danish accent, cannot say Aurora’s name properly becomes a term of endearment between the two, who form a new family from the broken pieces of their own.
    Marya E. Gates, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Divorce now is in the cards, but the terms are anything but of endearment.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • For those with prostates, perineal stimulation can also indirectly create deep arousal and enhance orgasm.
    Essence, Essence, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Weimaraners are another high-energy option, requiring both mental and physical stimulation.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Irwin politely refused to accept Tonioli and Hough's adulations, crediting it all to his partner.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Liu, for her part, takes this adulation in stride.
    Brett Berk, Robb Report, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The movie is a wry look at the petty foibles of life, the fears and neuroses that can impede a person’s path to fulfillment and enlightenment.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Trust that there is a sense of enlightenment waiting for you on the other side of this detour.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
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“Beguilement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beguilement. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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