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as in to delight
to fill with overwhelming emotion (as wonder or delight)
travelers have long been ravished with wonder and awe by the immensity of the Great Pyramid at Giza
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Recent Examples of ravish
At least 19 people have died as an outbreak of tornadoes ravished through the U.S. South and Midwest early Saturday morning, injuring multiple people across several states and leaving a path of destruction in the wake.
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Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2025
The Golden State was recently ravished by wildfires that destroyed Los Angeles homes and challenged local firefighters who combated flames amidst issues obtaining water.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 6 Feb. 2025
But those experiences ended up fueling her 2024 EP, The Drive Home, which drew ravishing reviews for its poetic metaphors pulled from her childhood memories.
—Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2025
More than a dozen comedians and musicians are coming together to support Los Angeles following the devastating wildfires that claimed at least 25 lives and ravished tens of thousands of acres in January.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2025
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Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2025
The Golden State was recently ravished by wildfires that destroyed Los Angeles homes and challenged local firefighters who combated flames amidst issues obtaining water.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 6 Feb. 2025
But those experiences ended up fueling her 2024 EP, The Drive Home, which drew ravishing reviews for its poetic metaphors pulled from her childhood memories.
—Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2025
More than a dozen comedians and musicians are coming together to support Los Angeles following the devastating wildfires that claimed at least 25 lives and ravished tens of thousands of acres in January.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ravish
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The sequel has plenty of the same horror-comedy elements that delighted audiences a couple years ago, but there’s also a major action upgrade that resembles the paths that Aliens and Terminator 2: Judgment Day took from their predecessors.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
20 June 2025
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The combination of microservices with edge computing CDNs and micro frontends creates a robust application development framework that enables fast, resilient and scalable applications that delight users while driving business expansion.—
Raju Dandigam,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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Earlier in the week, perhaps the most notable setback was a ruling by the Senate parliamentarian that a cap on health care provider taxes, which is projected to save billions of dollars in federal Medicaid spending, violated the Senate’s Byrd Rule.—
Alexander Bolton,
The Hill,
29 June 2025
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The Senate parliamentarian had ruled that these provisions governing current student loan borrowers violated senate reconciliation rules.—
Adam S. Minsky,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2025
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Gallo California Chardonnay California in a bottle, this budget-friendly Gallo California Chardonnay is crafted to please a wide range of palates.—
Chelsea Frank,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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Is Huda self-absorbed, overdramatic, extremely volatile, overly obsessed with traditional gender roles, and impossible to please?—
Shannon Keating,
Vulture,
19 June 2025
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Even after all this time, Mark Hamill’s still got the kids enraptured.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
16 June 2025
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Its a sandwich resplendent in its restraint, the three ingredients each allowed to enrapture your senses.—
Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2025
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The writer was fascinated with sharks after spotting them during childhood fishing trips with his father on Nantucket.—
Christopher Rudolph,
People.com,
20 June 2025
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That stuff about the Gunn Mummy fascinates me though.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
18 June 2025
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Serve up a board at a party, and have fun sampling all the different flavors with your guests, or whip up a quick flight for a drool-worthy afternoon snack that satisfies all your cravings.—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
18 June 2025
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Under Chapter 11, creditors, including the IRS, cannot take your primary residence to satisfy debts.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
18 June 2025
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The screenplay loses its way at the end but kids and adults will be enchanted by the inventive, eccentric characters and the rich animation.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
27 June 2025
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No longer interested in enchanting us, the filmmaker puts his audience through the wringer, and his kick-ass mentality is well-served by star Tom Cruise, who lives for these sorts of full-throttle roles.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
20 June 2025
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Either way — covering her own songs or gems by other artists — Erivo is likely to enthrall.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 June 2025
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Photo: Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection Seemingly every spring brings a critical and commercial hit that enthralls the cinematic community and challenges awards voters to find room for it come Oscar season.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
1 May 2025
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