fascinate
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In Italy, where she has no public role, Catherine seemed to fascinate people.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
Or is it only the archetypal Oedipus and Antigone who fascinate us?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
But the subject also appears to fascinate him.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025
“In her 1970 tome ‘The Complete Book of Magic and Witchcraft,’ Kathryn Paulsen said, ‘You may fascinate a woman by giving her a piece of cheese.’
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2025
“You never know what will fascinate them,” he said.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
But it is what lies beneath that fascinates him most.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
“It fascinates me to discover new people,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
In elite sports real struggle is rarely physical; it’s always in the brain, and that fascinates me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
The Pamir -- "a very special place... the roof of the world" -- particularly fascinates scientists, Stocker said, because it is a climatic crossroads, redirecting moist air from Europe towards the Indian subcontinent.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
It fascinates us, but it rules the Gethenians, dominates them.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
This material belongs to the class of strange metals, which have long fascinated physicists because they display unusual quantum properties that remain only partly understood.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026
A few more quick things that fascinated me: He met with Woody Allen in the 1960s to try and sell jokes, and there are tape recordings of this meeting!
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
“He was absolutely fascinated by that level of detailed data,” said Jonathan Pingle, who is now chief U.S. economist at UBS.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
"I've been fascinated for a long time by the camouflage and disruptive patterning of moth wings," she added.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
There was something about the work that fascinated me: the flying sparks and the ringing anvil, the cherry-red metal and the roaring forge.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
“That is what is fascinating in small-market businesses,” Monroe said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
"There are Don Quixotes and Sanchos: idealists and pragmatists. Some may find the transparency of crystals fascinating, while others are interested in their smell and whether they're edible," García-Ruiz pointed out.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
"I thought it was really interesting because just the fact that it got so popular over the years is really fascinating," Benny said.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
But to see him moving the levers and pushing buttons was fascinating.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
It's fascinating to see the incident morph and fester.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
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