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as in luring
to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage
every commercial seemed to be for some tempting snack specifically designed to entice me from my diet
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Recent Examples of enticing
Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
While perennially popular countries such as Italy and Portugal are tightening immigration regulations, many other places still offer enticing options for relocation.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2026
Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2026
Without a bobber stopper, on a slack line, your bullet weight will sink to the bottom, but your soft plastic will slowly glide towards the bottom while enticing hungry bass into biting.
—Derek Horner, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2026
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Adjective
While wine flying free can be an enticing perk for travelers booking wine tasting getaways, the new program comes at a time when air travel costs are rising due to the ongoing conflict in Iran.
—Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
While perennially popular countries such as Italy and Portugal are tightening immigration regulations, many other places still offer enticing options for relocation.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2026
Verb
Florida has been enticing companies in recent years to consider the state not just for launching their space hardware, but for building it.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2026
Without a bobber stopper, on a slack line, your bullet weight will sink to the bottom, but your soft plastic will slowly glide towards the bottom while enticing hungry bass into biting.
—Derek Horner, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for enticing
Adjective
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But that might be more tempting if their next series was not also at (even higher) elevation.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
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The updates include images that are intended to make the product inside more tempting to shoppers.—
Anne D’Innocenzio,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Apr. 2026
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While Kerbal incorporates a lot of advanced concepts that real-world astronauts actually grapple with, it's also delivered in a goofy, approachable shell (the eponymous Kerbals are closer to Minions than real people) that's been key to luring in newcomers.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
9 Apr. 2026
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Her model for all this, incredibly, is the Biblical heroine Jael, famous for luring the Canaanite commander Sisera to her tent, plying him with milk curds, and driving a tent peg through his temple.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Adding a second-rounder to recoup that capital and guarantee three picks in the top 64 in what should be a deep draft class would be a tantalizing offer.—
Adam Grosbard,
Oc Register,
19 Apr. 2026
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The upside here, though, is too tantalizing for some team to not swing on Bernard.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
16 Apr. 2026
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On the left, he’s heralded as the only voice capable of seducing young men disaffected by party politics.—
Abigail Sylvor Greenberg,
Vanity Fair,
20 Mar. 2026
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One of her alternate personalities — the cold and calculating Samantha — joins law enforcement to pursue her father’s killers, while other identities begin to surface with their own motives, seducing and manipulating powerful men as Sylvia’s search for justice veers into vengeance.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
18 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Complimentary blankets aren’t always available—or appealing, for that matter—making this a mistake that seasoned travelers learn to plan around.—
Samantha Leal,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Apr. 2026
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That balance is part of what makes the MDX Type S so appealing.—
Sponsored Content,
Denver Post,
17 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Watching the two teams toggle schematic approaches mid-series and adjust rosters in the offseasons to better matchup with one another has produced an enthralling chess match.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
18 Apr. 2026
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His absence in the Warriors’ last home game of the regular season also put a damper on what could have been another enthralling matchup of two of the NBA’s biggest stars.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The feature is set in British Columbia, largely in the span of a summer during the nineteen-nineties, in a calm residential suburb on the ruggedly alluring Vancouver Island.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2026
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Captive in bucolic panopticons, their lives are at once aesthetically alluring, depressingly regressive and anthropologically fascinating.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Apr. 2026
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“Enticing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enticing. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.
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