LURED Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

lured

verb

past tense of lure

as in tempted

to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage the hunter lured the lion into the open with the antelope carcass

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Recent Examples of lured Afterwards, everyone was lured by the sound of salsa music into Bar Lelarge for a nightcap before scattering around the hotel. — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2026 That night, Pike, her boyfriend, 17-year-old Tadaryl Shipp, and an acquaintance, Shadolla Peterson, 18, lured Slemmer to an isolated area behind the agricultural campus steam plant. — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026 When Conrad was knocked down at a practice session, Belmonte ran to help him while Manolete lured the animal away. — Stephen Bates, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026 At stake were big crowds to celebrate the Fourth of July, watch quarter horse racing and enjoy cool weather that’d lured Texans here for generations. — Abe Streep, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026 Carolina Milanesi, an analyst at researcher Creative Strategies, said companies will have to see if users are lured by the prospect of paying more for enhanced processing power. — Kif Leswing,annie Palmer,jordan Novet, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026 The enigma of comets and asteroids lured the world’s space agencies into funding a series of robotic probes to study them. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026 The possibility of making millions from selling live on Whatnot or TikTok has lured in former entertainment workers, moms, small-business owners and others to the platforms. — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026 He was lured by the Saints to return to the sidelines in 1997, but that turned out to be a mistake. — Ira Kaufman, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2026

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Snyder already had decided to shoot nothing smaller than a six-pointer for the first five days of the season but he was tempted to take the spike.

— Rich LaRocco, Outdoor Life, 2 Nov. 2026
Skip the newish teriyaki burritos, and run, don’t walk, to the short ribs teriyaki, so smoky and tender that you might almost be tempted to bypass the chicken altogether.

— Allecia Vermillion, Bon Appetit Magazine, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of tempted

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Will Stewart be seduced into the path of corruption by using Sinestro’s emotionally tainted battery, or steel himself against ill influences and continue to blaze his own trail as Earth's sole protector for the time being?

— Jeff Spry, Space.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Armani’s languid silhouette soon seduced red- and blue-blooded men the world over.

— Robb Report, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of seduced

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But while Cartman and Ike are in Sephora, they get enticed into going into the backrooms with an employee, which look straight out of Kane Parsons’ horror film.

— Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
During the mid-2000s, some tribal members, enticed by a chance at life-changing money, got involved in moving people and drugs, fueling cycles of arrest and incarceration that exacerbated challenges the community was already facing.

— Ryan Devereaux, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of enticed

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Unconvinced that politicians will help These political gestures have not persuaded Linda Moodie, an independent who's been volunteering with Conserve Ohio.

— Andrea Hsu, NPR, 28 Oct. 2026
The missions never fully persuaded shippers that these waterways were safe—especially the Red Sea—or prevented Iran and the Houthis from eventually returning to their efforts to exploit the chokepoints.

— Dana Stroul, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2026

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