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as in to excite
to fill with great joy
enraptured upon learning that he would be attending college on a full sports scholarship
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as in to delight
to fill with overwhelming emotion (as wonder or delight)
this classic ballet of the Christmas season never fails to enrapture audiences young and old
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Recent Examples of enrapture
Its sultry designs that continue to impress and enrapture the automotive community.
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Morgan Korn, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2025
Valentin at first doesn’t care but quickly becomes enraptured by the melodramatic story of a magazine fashion editor (Lopez), her assistant (Tonatiuh), a photographer love interest (Luna) and the mysterious Spider Woman (also Lopez).
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025
Last winter, Khamari parted ways with RCA, citing creative differences, and joined forces with independent record label Encore Recordings ahead of his new full-length, the enrapturing To Dry a Tear.
—Kyle Denis, Billboard, 22 Aug. 2025
For a generation enraptured by Sofia Coppola’s 2003 film Lost in Translation, that place is the New York Bar at the Park Hyatt Tokyo, the liminal space where Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson’s characters find connection in their loneliness and sameness as strangers in a strange land.
—Melinda Sheckells, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Morgan Korn, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2025
Valentin at first doesn’t care but quickly becomes enraptured by the melodramatic story of a magazine fashion editor (Lopez), her assistant (Tonatiuh), a photographer love interest (Luna) and the mysterious Spider Woman (also Lopez).
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025
Last winter, Khamari parted ways with RCA, citing creative differences, and joined forces with independent record label Encore Recordings ahead of his new full-length, the enrapturing To Dry a Tear.
—Kyle Denis, Billboard, 22 Aug. 2025
For a generation enraptured by Sofia Coppola’s 2003 film Lost in Translation, that place is the New York Bar at the Park Hyatt Tokyo, the liminal space where Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson’s characters find connection in their loneliness and sameness as strangers in a strange land.
—Melinda Sheckells, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for enrapture
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Tapascott said speed alone no longer excites drivers.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Jan. 2026
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At Square Peg, I was surrounded by more than two dozen filmmakers — all brilliant, all hand-selected — and exactly none were excited by the prospect of building audience or crafting distribution strategy.—
Dana Harris-Bridson,
IndieWire,
6 Jan. 2026
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SciAm always educates and delights me, and inspires a sense of awe for our vast, beautiful universe.—
Stephanie Pappas,
Scientific American,
7 Jan. 2026
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The legendary basketball squad, which was founded in 1926, has been delighting sports fans and families now for a full century.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
6 Jan. 2026
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Beyond its intoxicating scent, the bottle will look gorgeous in your beauty cabinet.—
Kyra Surgent,
InStyle,
8 Jan. 2026
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That, too, has created intoxicating competitive energy.—
Dan Wiederer,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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Details of the service were kept private, but the family's public show of solidarity in turning out to support Caroline is typical of the Kennedy dynasty, which has fascinated Americans for decades.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
7 Jan. 2026
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Why does Kubrick’s work continue to fascinate, thrill, and move us?—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
31 Dec. 2025
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Few industries have been as brazen in their capitulation as Big Tech, which has dismantled its content-moderation systems to please the current administration.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
14 Jan. 2026
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The volume was eventually reprinted in the Modern Library—an accolade that greatly pleased its author.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
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Zobel’s direction and the way Ingelsby’s story wove in the lives of so many of Mare’s nearest and dearest, exploring the most heartbreakingly chilling and intimate details of their lives, enthralled me.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
8 Jan. 2026
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But the youngsters weren’t the only ones enthralled by the vintage model train layout at Pullman Exhibit Hall and its links to the history of Chicago’s Pullman neighborhood and the rail car factory that anchored it.—
Janice Neumann,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Jan. 2026
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Her popular romance stories have enchanted readers' hearts with mesmerizing tales, and by providing hope to others, Henry’s books have made generations fall head over heels for her writing.—
Lisa Stardust,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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Coperni’s timing proved, well, enchanted.—
Faran Krentcil,
InStyle,
31 Dec. 2025
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The crab rangoon added a satisfying crunch and works well as a sharable appetizer.—
Alexa Stone
January 9,
Kansas City Star,
9 Jan. 2026
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The great mystery is whether every solution — every single possible fluid history that satisfies the Navier-Stokes equations — makes sense everywhere and always.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
9 Jan. 2026
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