as in enticing
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as in seduction
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as in luring
to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage
that chocolate dessert sure tempts me, but I should stick with my diet
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as in risking
to take a chance on
refusing to lay in enough food for the long winter tempts the dangers of starvation
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Recent Examples of tempting
Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2025
As tempting as the comparisons with human language may be, the researchers caution against reading too much into these parallels.
—Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2025
Those colorful, mouthwatering displays, new products, and check-out aisle treats can be all too tempting to add to your cart.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Feb. 2025
Whether these homeowners opted to hire an interior designer or take on a DIY project, the home offices rounded up below, located everywhere from Beverly Hills to Brooklyn, have one thing in common: sophistication, secluded from tempting distractions.
—Kate Jerde, Architectural Digest, 30 Jan. 2025
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Adjective
Large design teams and big budgets of the kind Trotter is inheriting at Bottega, for example, are no doubt tempting.
—Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2025
As tempting as the comparisons with human language may be, the researchers caution against reading too much into these parallels.
—Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2025
Those colorful, mouthwatering displays, new products, and check-out aisle treats can be all too tempting to add to your cart.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Feb. 2025
Whether these homeowners opted to hire an interior designer or take on a DIY project, the home offices rounded up below, located everywhere from Beverly Hills to Brooklyn, have one thing in common: sophistication, secluded from tempting distractions.
—Kate Jerde, Architectural Digest, 30 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tempting
Adjective
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Menu offerings are equally enticing, choose from an assortment of Bellocq teas to enjoy with your sandwiches (quail egg toast and lobster roll are highlights) plus traditional scones, pastries, and cookies including madeleines and canelés.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
9 Feb. 2025
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That would have gifted us with a wonderfully fresh and enticing Super Bowl combatant.—
Jeff Pearlman,
Rolling Stone,
8 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Yet jewelers are hardly the only ones who have fallen prey to the snake’s powers of seduction.—
Victoria Gomelsky,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2025
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Ellen has not really succumbed to his seduction, but has sacrificed herself for a noble cause, ensuring her soul is purified and free, not bound to the damned soul of the undead Orlok.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes,
29 Dec. 2024
Verb
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The church was notorious for luring in young industry strivers; one of Scott’s good friends had joined.—
Rachel Syme,
The New Yorker,
23 Dec. 2024
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Underwood, a former grocery store worker, hit the 10-year-old with a cutting board after luring her into his residence, per AP, The Norman Transcript and The Oklahoman.—
Samira Asma-Sadeque,
People.com,
19 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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But the real reward for loyal viewers comes in the form of a new remix of the show’s theme music, once again by Cristobal Tapia de Veer, over another tantalizing credits sequence.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
16 Feb. 2025
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After two hours, Tse Yaa Kin appeared around the bend, its alcoves offering tantalizing shelter from the September sun.—
Alastair Lee Bitsóí,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 Feb. 2025
Noun
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One of the major lessons of the Carter energy policies is that all the exhortations of advocates and government experts are as nothing compared to the weight of consumer choice.—
Michael Lynch,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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Instead, judges in the United States have the independence to choose law over the orders or exhortations of any politician.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Geneviève Page, the alluring French actress who starred in such films as Belle de Jour, El Cid and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, died Friday.—
Rhett Bartlett,
The Hollywood Reporter,
14 Feb. 2025
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Sandalwood, vanilla, and amber are met with cinnamon, rose, coriander, and mandarin for an intriguing blend suited for an alluring man.—
Kiana Murden,
Vogue,
11 Feb. 2025
Verb
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So instead of scientific breakthroughs, this campaign has relied on persuading millions of people to change basic behaviors.—
Sam Mednick,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Dec. 2024
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Baldwin staged the play in Istanbul, recruiting Cherry to compose music for it and persuading male actors to take up drag.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
28 Dec. 2024
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These entreaties, if they were ever heard by Cox and Kyoko, were ignored.—
Jordan Runtagh,
People.com,
1 Feb. 2025
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Despite entreaties from its engineers, Google management sat on the breakthrough.—
Tom Wheeler,
TIME,
30 Jan. 2025
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“Tempting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tempting. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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