Example Sentences

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There have been tantalizing previews of the novel since then.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2022

Leaks of what he has written in his forthcoming book have been tantalizing, if not dispositive.

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2020

Curiosity’s methane measurements have been tantalizing researchers for years.

From Nature • Oct. 24, 2018

Although results in mice have been tantalizing, many of the clinical trials of intravenous MSCs for IBD, and a number of other conditions, “were largely failures”, says Van Assche.

From Nature • Dec. 20, 2016

The results have been tantalizing, annoying, provocative, stimulating, and, at least until recently, substantially inconclusive.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan