as in to tempt
to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage
every commercial seemed to be for some tempting snack specifically designed to entice me from my diet
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Recent Examples of entice
Local leaders are looking to entice people back to Downtown after pandemic business losses with three civic upgrade projects, including Market Square, and plan to show them off at the 2026 NFL Draft.
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Ryan Deto, Axios, 1 Apr. 2025
Heavy rains turned a San Luis Obispo park into a temporary lake on Tuesday, and that was enough to entice a few people to break out their water toys, including a jet skier who buzzed around the shallow waters.
—Joan Lynch, Sacbee.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Numerous observers believe the Bay Area could begin to see an economic lift from the rush into artificial intelligence, a fledgling field that has enticed investors and fueled startup activity.
—George Avalos, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2025
And there are plenty of people out there to entice, given that the majority of Americans these days aren’t regular moviegoers.
—William Earl, Variety, 27 Mar. 2025
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Ryan Deto, Axios, 1 Apr. 2025
Heavy rains turned a San Luis Obispo park into a temporary lake on Tuesday, and that was enough to entice a few people to break out their water toys, including a jet skier who buzzed around the shallow waters.
—Joan Lynch, Sacbee.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Numerous observers believe the Bay Area could begin to see an economic lift from the rush into artificial intelligence, a fledgling field that has enticed investors and fueled startup activity.
—George Avalos, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2025
And there are plenty of people out there to entice, given that the majority of Americans these days aren’t regular moviegoers.
—William Earl, Variety, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for entice
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Again, Lewandowski is coming short and tempting the right-sided centre-back higher up the pitch.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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Category extension: Beyond time pieces, time objects Being resilient also means finding new ways to be relevant for consumers who might have an abundant watch collection and might be much more difficult to tempt with new ones.—
Stéphane JG Girod,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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In Germany, phony emails containing QR codes lured eBanking customers to malicious websites under the guise of reviewing privacy policy updates to their accounts.—
David G.W. Birch,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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Most parents are looking for ways to lure their children away from TV and iPads.—
Emily Edlynn,
Parents,
4 Apr. 2025
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Single women—more likely, naturally, to be seduced by the devil—were disproportionately executed for witchcraft.—
Faith Hill,
The Atlantic,
2 Apr. 2025
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Taking over a century-old garden house hidden within Shanghai’s storied alleys, Samuel Gui Yang softly partitioned the space, seducing the audience yet making every one of them a clandestine voyeur.—
Tianwei Zhang,
Footwear News,
1 Apr. 2025
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Again, this is a case of humans using AI to persuade people to adopt their views rather than an indication that AI is extreme or prone to suggesting extreme ideas and behaviors.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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Last week, Meta’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, was at the White House to try to persuade the administration to settle the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against Meta.—
Cecilia Kang,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Entice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entice. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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