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is lured
noun
Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
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Singer is lured by this idea.
The visitor is lured in as a participant.
In Euripides' telling, Iphigenia is lured to the altar with the promise of marrying Achilles.
John is lured away from one game by his friend, Vic, who wants him to compete in a track meet.
And in "The After Hours," a department-store mannequin on the lam is lured back to the shop.
A former American operative is lured out of retirement after a notorious terrorist kidnaps a philanthropic billionaire.
Even Sancho, the levelheaded peasant, is lured into the political comedy of becoming governor of a nonexistent island.
A writer is lured back into the life of his former fiancée, who dumped him for a woman.
The addict is lured to a meeting with a promise like "Grandma has a check to give you this Sunday".
In Inside Mr Enderby, the eponymous poet-protagonist is lured into writing for a women's magazine with disastrous consequences.
This happens shortly after Krishna is lured to Singapore by a conniving career woman, Priya (Priyanka Chopra).
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