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arrestingly

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[uh-rest-ing-lee] / əˈrɛst ɪŋ li /

adverb

  1. in a way that captures or arrests attention or interest.


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Rolling Stone hailed "Lux" as "a truly timeless work of art", while music magazine NME called it "arrestingly beautiful".

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025

What I did know was that Beverly’s extremely simple recipe yielded an arrestingly good bowl of soup.

From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2025

Rolling Stone magazine called it “both startlingly minimal and arrestingly gorgeous.”

From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2022

It begins arrestingly with Sheppard and Lawson airborne in their wheelchairs, floating and spinning like astronauts in low gravity.

From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2022

The assertion was remarkable partly for being so arrestingly specific but even more for flying in the face of accepted wisdom about the age of the Earth.*

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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