Synonyms for tantalizing
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1. tantalizing, tantalisingadjective

   arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach

   "a tantalizing taste of success"

   Synonyms:
   tempting, tantalising

   Antonyms:
   uninviting

2. tantalizing, tantalising, temptingadjective

   very pleasantly inviting

   "a tantalizing aroma"; "a tempting repast"

   Synonyms:
   tempting, alluring, tantalising, enticing, beguiling

   Antonyms:
   uninviting

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1. Toby Wilkinson:

   It's certainly tantalizing what Nicholas Reeves has suggested, if we look at what we know: we're pretty certain there is an undiscovered royal tomb of roughly the same period somewhere, because we have more kings than we have tombs, so logic suggests that there's still a tomb to be found.

2. Sushil Atreya:

   We're beginning to see this tantalizing correlation between methane and oxygen for a good part of the Mars year, i think there's something to it. I just don't have the answers yet. Nobody does.

3. Stephen Fagin:

   There's nothing more tantalizing than looking at a flickering a film projected on a wall, trying to find details in the grainy shadows and digging through secret locked files and looking for evidence, looking for some nugget of information that's never been revealed before.

4. Steven Nissen:

   The placebo effect is very powerful, i can imagine how this plays out in the athletic world, where you're operating at the 99th percentile of human performance. Someone says, 'I can give you something that's going to make you a little bit better.' It's very tantalizing to try it.

5. Natalie Batalha:

   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.