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tan·ta·liz·ing

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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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How to use tantalizing in a sentence?

  1. Tom Connolly:

    There's a tantalizing possibility that people were here thousands of years earlier than we thought.

  2. Amy Simon:

    Every time we look at Jupiter, we get tantalizing hints that something really exciting is going on, this time is no exception.

  3. 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.

  4. Bruce Neal:

    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.

  5. 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.


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