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 The 33-year-old man, lured to Cambodia with the offer of a receptionist job, endured daily beatings for a month, locked in a dark room somewhere in the Southeast Asian country. — ABC News, 5 Nov. 2026 Once Anchovy Jack settled in one area, rescuers lured him into a humane trap. — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026 For instance, the French podcast company Legend which lured a Belgian fund at a valuation of €72 million. — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 4 Nov. 2026 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lured
  1. tempted
  2. seduced
  3. enticed
  4. persuaded
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • Credit card companies long ago realized that offering lounge access enticed new customers, with Chase, American Express, Citi, Capital One, and more getting in the game.
    — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 6 Nov. 2026
  • The audio erotica platform Quinn also enticed readers by offering a discount code citing AO3’s blackout.
    — Angela Yang, NBC news, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of enticed
Verb
  • In 2020, Ben Motal aptly persuaded the Court of Appeals that the FOIA's right to copy records includes photographing them, after Little Rock incredibly barred him from snapping a picture of an accident report.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Carson didn’t answer her phone right away, silencing it until her husband persuaded her to call back.
    — Stacy Keltner, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of persuaded

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“Lured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lured. Accessed 11 Nov. 2026.

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