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Criminals develop fake friendships or romantic relationships with victims over time, eventually persuading them to deposit funds into bogus cryptocurrency investment platforms.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
29 Apr. 2026 -
Elections become less about persuading voters and more about configuring the electorate.—
Dan Daley,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
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The Big East has steadied its membership, since the conference’s revival, by adding Butler, Creighton and Xavier, luring UConn back to its rightful home, winning four men’s basketball national championships, four women’s hoops titles and now operating out of the Empire State Building.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
21 Apr. 2026
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But Mizrachi sees potential for Pensacola in some of the same forces that are luring Jews to Boca and Aventure — including unhappiness among New Yorkers with the city’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani.—
Larry Luxner,
Sun Sentinel,
20 Apr. 2026
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Nate plays his older neighbors like a fiddle, seducing them with his beauty, money, and youth.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
20 Apr. 2026
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On the left, he’s heralded as the only voice capable of seducing young men disaffected by party politics.—
Abigail Sylvor Greenberg,
Vanity Fair,
20 Mar. 2026
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His frame and traits are enticing.—
Alec Lewis,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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In Middleboro he is charged with one count of witness intimidation and enticing a child under 16.—
Flint McColgan,
Boston Herald,
25 Apr. 2026
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Fans of Summer House have been eager to find out whether Batula and Wilson would take accountability at the reunion for betraying Miller.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
26 Apr. 2026
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The go-to resource for mapping out those periods is the app EskomSePush (the name of which is a cheeky double entendre in Afrikkans, betraying the public annoyance).—
Abbey Hudetz,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Inveigling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inveigling. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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