as in temptation
the act or pressure of giving in to a desire especially when ill-advised
the swift seduction of the home buyers into a bigger house than they could afford
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Recent Examples of seduction
The Hunting Wives, which is based off the bestselling book by May Cobb, follows Sophie O’Neil (Brittany Snow) who moves to East Texas and falls in with a group of socialites run by Margo Banks (Malin Akerman), leading her into a world of seduction and murder.
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Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 12 Dec. 2025
This sparks a dangerous battle of seduction, manipulation, and betrayal in the public and private spheres.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 9 Dec. 2025
Midway through, in a seduction scene that pays homage to the original, Anderson’s character looks out a window in Drebin’s apartment, admiring the lights of Los Angeles.
—Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2025
There is also the seduction of turning any proto-insight into a commodity.
—Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
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Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 12 Dec. 2025
This sparks a dangerous battle of seduction, manipulation, and betrayal in the public and private spheres.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 9 Dec. 2025
Midway through, in a seduction scene that pays homage to the original, Anderson’s character looks out a window in Drebin’s apartment, admiring the lights of Los Angeles.
—Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2025
There is also the seduction of turning any proto-insight into a commodity.
—Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seduction
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At the same time, the temptation to overinvest in silver and gold now, with the price at record highs, should also be avoided.—
Matt Richardson,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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As the country moves toward the 2026 midterms, the temptation will be to treat our current racial, political, and economic crisis as a sharp break from the past; to search for singular villains; and to imagine that a return to normalcy is just one election away.—
Heather Ann Thompson,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2026
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This past year also was elevated by the success that the league’s TV partners had in harnessing the lure of live game coverage to drive larger corporate imperatives — namely, building up the streaming platforms that represent the future for the parent companies of NBC, CBS, ESPN/ABC and Fox.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
28 Jan. 2026
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However, since the Covid-19 pandemic, these lines have blurred as relocating families and remote workers seek the social life and cultural lure of cities.—
Zoë Dare Hall,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Seduction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seduction. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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