seducements

noun

plural of seducement
as in inducements

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  1. incentives
  2. attractions
  3. stimuli
  4. motivations
  5. appeals
  6. seductions
  7. impulses
  8. encouragements
Noun
  • Commercial incentives persist Koh said shipping companies around the world have continued looking for opportunities to navigate the Strait since the conflict erupted, with some operators prepared to accept higher risks and costs.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026
  • These changes would reduce costs, free up management bandwidth and improve IPO formation incentives.
    — Jeff Jacobs, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of incentives
Noun
  • Following the incident, Six Flags temporarily closed similar attractions at other parks as a precaution, the company confirmed to local outlet WSB-TV.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026
  • One of the main attractions at Six Flags Great Adventure is the Nitro roller coaster, which has no shoulder restraints and no sides on the cars.
    — Nikki DeMentri, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of attractions
Noun
  • Researchers have studied how certain facial and auricular stimuli interact with parasympathetic activity.
    — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Researchers have also explored how certain facial and auricular stimuli may interact with parasympathetic activity.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of stimuli
Noun
  • Rational motivations like eco-consciousness, economic pragmatism, and technophilia inform EV purchases.
    — Peter Gaston, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Appropriate enough, since the two have just spent nearly an hour discussing energy — namely, the source of their own inner motivations to create.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of motivations
Noun
  • The curators, David Breslin and Brinda Kumar, don’t accomplish this with appeals to timeliness or relevance but with a mighty selection of pieces—more than a hundred and twenty, from eighty-two different institutions—and smart exhibition design.
    — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Michael Rider’s Celine appeals to me for its approach to the contemporary wardrobe.
    — Madeleine Schulz, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of appeals
Noun
  • Wallen specializes in whiskey-drunk seductions to skeptical girls who can’t resist his charms.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026
  • So, who was it from our universe that would be most susceptible to that kind of messaging, or who would find the seductions of the power offered by that the most compelling?
    — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 3 Mar. 2026
Definition of seductions
Noun
  • From here on out, the authorship of Tae-ju’s life is ambiguous, as well as constantly in flux, buffeted by the whims and suggestions of others, as well as by her own impulses.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Up in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, the five members of Gash have been following their own spontaneous creative impulses for years.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of impulses
Noun
  • Many folks send encouragements toward OP mom and her son, while others put heat on the other parents for sexualizing their kids’ friendship.
    — DeVonne Goode, Parents, 26 July 2026
  • All through the park, competitors and onlookers hit vapes and shout tips and encouragements into trees.
    — Calin Van Paris, Outside, 19 Mar. 2026
Definition of encouragements
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