seducement

Definition of seducementnext

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Noun
  • The official boundaries of the new stadium incentive district have not yet been finalized.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The grocer will also receive a $50,000 retailer incentive bonus.
    Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Brain function and motivation Regular marijuana use affects all areas of brain function, including attention span, memory and motivation, according to Gamberg.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • According to the survey, respondents who reported using AI more frequently worried less about its impact on intelligence and motivation, indicating AI anxiety may resolve over time.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Punk’s response felt less like encouragement and more like a challenge.
    Rob Wolkenbrod, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Cathleen also acted as dance mistress by demonstrating the steps and helping James provide encouragement and brief explanations for a dance’s historical context.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The material contained on this site is intended to inform, entertain and educate the reader and in no way represents an inducement to gamble legally or illegally or any sort of professional advice.
    Rachel Hale, USA Today, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Ghost sued Wilson for defamation, leading to a countersuit accusing Ghost, Gregory Cameron, and Vince Holden of breach of contract, false imprisonment, fraudulent inducement, and infliction of emotional distress.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • And in the sweetest bit of romance so far, Lady Bridgerton herself seems one step closer to acting on her attraction to Lady Danbury's brother Lord Anderson (Daniel Francis), with the two sharing a (scandalous) moment of hand-holding at the ball.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
  • With more than 150 wineries, the valley is now the region’s top attraction.
    Joe Yogerst, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • This suggests the presence of an internal, self-evolving latent variable—independent of external stimuli—that shapes the timing structure of motivation and decision-making.
    Matt Emma, USA Today, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Feland adds that the additional gravitational load gives an extra stimulus for the bone to build more tissue in people who don’t get that through weight-bearing exercise or resistance training.
    Jennifer Heimlich, Time, 23 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Due to a positive audience response to the pairing, the writers retconned the scene as a seduction, rather than rape.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 22 Dec. 2025
  • For years, Laura's rape was treated as a sort of seduction — until 1998 when Luke and Laura's son Lucky (Jonathan Jackson) finds out the dark history behind his parents' romance.
    Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The decisive impetus on the material side comes from our shareholder Mitsui Chemical to use sustainable material solutions in these products.
    CBS News, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The immediate impetus for the protests was the release by Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism on July 13, 2019 (the day before the protests began), of nearly 900 pages of digital chats between Rosselló and his top aides and cabinet members.
    Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2026
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“Seducement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seducement. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.

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