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tan·ta·liz·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
tantalizing, tantalisingadjective
arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach
"a tantalizing taste of success"
Synonyms:
tempting, tantalisingAntonyms:
uninvitingtantalizing, tantalising, temptingadjective
very pleasantly inviting
"a tantalizing aroma"; "a tempting repast"
Synonyms:
tempting, alluring, tantalising, enticing, beguilingAntonyms:
uninviting
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#23055 | tempting | |
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#40081 | alluring | |
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#79788 | beguiling | |
#114111 | tantalising |
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There's a tantalizing possibility that people were here thousands of years earlier than we thought.
Woman -- for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: Blind yourself, for I am blind.
The dynamic interface of a complex core and seawater could potentially create energy sources that might support life, while we have not found evidence of the presence of microbial life in the ocean of Enceladus, the growing evidence for chemical disequilibrium offers a tantalizing hint that habitable conditions could exist beneath the moons icy crust.
Previous observations of this planet with Hubble and Spitzer had given us tantalizing hints that carbon dioxide could be present, the data from JWST showed an unequivocal carbon dioxide feature that was so prominent it was practically shouting at us.
Two points here : first, while it’s an intuitively appealing finding, it is statistically rather weak, second, good adherence is hard to achieve with current therapeutic options for PAP. If a new, very well-tolerated mode of PAP therapy is identified, it would be really helpful to do a large outcome trial to try and confirm this tantalizing observation.
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