as in seducer
a woman whom men find irresistibly attractive
a siren who could captivate any audience
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Recent Examples of siren
Pillars of the rap genre like Dr. Dre and Queen Latifah were featured, as was the siren of soul herself: Diana Ross.
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Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025
Overcoming the compulsions, the siren’s call, the lowest-common-denominator, tabloid, casino effect of everything in a very competitive attention environment where we’re driven toward the lowest common denominator.
—Sean Illing, Vox, 1 Feb. 2025
Witnesses could be heard crying as sirens blared in the background.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 1 Feb. 2025
Within minutes the night air was filled with the sound of fire sirens.
—Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
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Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025
Overcoming the compulsions, the siren’s call, the lowest-common-denominator, tabloid, casino effect of everything in a very competitive attention environment where we’re driven toward the lowest common denominator.
—Sean Illing, Vox, 1 Feb. 2025
Witnesses could be heard crying as sirens blared in the background.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 1 Feb. 2025
Within minutes the night air was filled with the sound of fire sirens.
—Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for siren
Noun
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In the musical thriller, Lopez stars as Aurora, a fantasy temptress conjured up by Luis Molina, a gay hairdresser imprisoned during a war in Argentina circa 1981, along with Valentin Arregui Paz, a Marxist.—
Angel Saunders,
People.com,
26 Jan. 2025
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No Good Deed does have an undeniably fantastic cast at its disposal, from Luke Wilson as an unhappy soap actor to Linda Cardellini as a blonde temptress, from Denis Leary as a dangerous ex-con to the great Anna Maria Horsford as the overbearing mom of one prospective buyer.—
Dave Nemetz,
TVLine,
12 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The fundamental elements of African American music were the sounds of enslaved Africans; cries, hollers, call and response, additive rhythms, bent notes, hand-clapping, stomps and constant repetition of rhythmic and melodic phrasing (from which riffs and vamps were derived).—
Ronald E. Scott,
New York Daily News,
1 Feb. 2025
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The True Blood vamp plays a wealthy novelist who accidentally kills a local man at a seaside resort and discovers there’s a way for rich people to avoid the law in this part of the world.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
7 Jan. 2025
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Holding an axe, she was portrayed as a murderous, wealth-seeking seductress who had beheaded her husbands, evident by their heads disappearing from the wedding portraits scattered around the attic.—
Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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Catherine is a tease, a seductress — a teenager’s wet dream and a mother’s worst nightmare.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
22 Oct. 2024
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Soon, a slinking femme fatale named Silver enters the scene, looking to rent out a room and perhaps purchase the venue, something that P-Sam is also discussing.—
Rob Hubbard,
Twin Cities,
14 Feb. 2025
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Within a decade of Mahler’s death, Mahler-Werfel had acquired a reputation as a femme fatale, a sort of intellectual dominatrix.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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“Siren.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/siren. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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