as in tempted
to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage
the hunter lured the lion into the open with the antelope carcass
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Recent Examples of lured
Heaps also indicated that she was lured to the Summit by majority owner Rob Cohen and coach Nick Cushing, who previously coached the Manchester City women and Major League Soccer's NYCFC.
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Romi Bean, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2026
By Michael Sasso | Bloomberg Sales of new homes in the US were little changed in October but remain near the strongest pace since 2023 as builders lured anxious customers with price cuts and incentives.
—Bloomberg, Oc Register, 13 Jan. 2026
Smith, who played for UConn from 2004-06, was part of Randy Edsall’s coaching staff from 2017-21 and is now the receivers coach at Army, lured Marion out of Atlanta to sign with UConn during the pandemic, in December 2020.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 13 Jan. 2026
Some of the victims were men lured through social media.
—Kevin Maurer, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2026
Prosecutors said the husband lured Ryan to the couple’s Herndon-area home as part of his plot to kill his wife.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 13 Jan. 2026
Their opening night gets interrupted when blood thirsty vampires are lured in by the musical talents of Sammie (Miles Caton), a young blues musician.
—Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
Neuralink recently lured a top official away from the Food and Drug Administration office that regulates the company, a poaching that has surprised, impressed, and infuriated its competitors in a fledgling industry developing brain-computer interfaces.
—O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 5 Jan. 2026
Based on Diana Gabaldon’s book series, Outlander has lured audiences with its sweeping historical fantasy and once-in-a-lifetime(s) love story.
—James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lured
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Let that be your motivation for restraint the next time you’re tempted to splurge on a latte.—
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Could you be tempted back into that world?—
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Released in 1994, Sátántangó (based on László Krasznahorka’s novel) chronicled an impoverished Hungarian village that becomes seduced by a would-be prophet who has seemingly come back from the dead.—
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This year, we were seduced by silver trays and a new take on the TV-dinner table.—
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The lure of a coveted Riverside jacket, bag and sneakers enticed Powell to try out for the team.—
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The lure of a coveted Riverside jacket, bag, and sneakers enticed Powell to try out for the team.—
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But the demonstrations are diffuse and largely leaderless, and Pezeshkian’s efforts at mediation — and the killings and arrests by security forces — have not persuaded the protesters to stay off the streets.—
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The paintings worked because viewers did not need to be persuaded that these scenes mattered.—
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“Lured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lured. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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