Example Sentences

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There is some evidence that investors have flocked to physical silver as gold has grown more expensive, and that both metals have lured traders away from that so-called digital gold—Bitcoin.

From Barron's • Dec. 29, 2025

Its ambitions have lured brilliant minds to our country and funneled research dollars to our universities.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025

These studies weren’t necessarily wrong, but I suspect they were snapshots in time that might have lured some into concluding the entire effort was destined to misfire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

Smartphones and addictive social media apps have lured children away from the activities that are indispensable to healthy development - outdoor play, face-to-face conversations, sleep.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2024

What could have lured all those whales to their death? thought Matt as they trudged along the line of shrimp tanks.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer