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"This is something that had intrigued people for a long time."

From BBC • Aug. 2, 2025

The possibility of building a canal across the Isthmus of Suez, which divided Asia from Africa, had intrigued Europeans since the fifteenth century.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

By 2010, Mudendin’s green thumb had intrigued officials in Seiyun.

From Washington Post • Nov. 7, 2021

Pete Buttigieg, the former South Bend, Ind., mayor and onetime McKinsey consultant whose common-sense centrism had intrigued others, had lost ground in recent weeks.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2020

Malcolm went home with a book about symbolic pictures, because what Dr. Relf had told him about the alethiometer had intrigued him greatly, and a book called The Silk Road.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman