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The NHL is mulling keeping players home instead of sending them to Beijing for the Winter Olympics in two months over the recent COVID-19 outbreak that is ravishing teams.

From Fox News • Dec. 19, 2021

Akers’ worldbuilding is ravishing, and Carr presents it all to us with breathless immediacy: I can’t wait to hear her readings of the sequels, “Westside Saints” and “Westside Lights.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 8, 2021

Now, an even more aggressive form of it is ravishing different parts of the body politic all at once.

From Slate • Mar. 5, 2018

Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky has made his own Christmas miracle: a joyful “Nutcracker” ballet that is ravishing and clever enough to inspire multiple viewings.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2015

But the more its image is ravishing to my imagination, the more I fear it is not real, and I refuse to yield to it lest my happiness be too soon destroyed.

From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by Overton, William Hassell