seducements

noun

plural of seducement
as in inducements

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  1. incentives
  2. attractions
  3. stimuli
  4. motivations
  5. appeals
  6. seductions
  7. impulses
  8. encouragements
Noun
  • What mattered was whether traffic could improve, whether franchisees could earn acceptable returns, whether management incentives were aligned, and whether capital allocation could change.
    — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Reach of local media adds to the equation The decline of local media may also be changing the incentives around debates.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of incentives
Noun
  • At this point, the institution is operating as usual with the Museum Experience Center and other attractions open.
    — John Tufts, IndyStar, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Later came the casinos, and the boardwalk's popularity over the years has led to new attractions and businesses.
    — Ryan Hughes, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of attractions
Noun
  • All the while the fMRI churned on, peering through the dogs’ skulls into the brain below and looking for the areas that lit up as a result of the visual stimuli.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 10 Aug. 2026
  • How 40 Hz Sound Therapy Works The treatment is called GENUS, short for gamma entrainment using sensory stimuli.
    — Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 13 July 2026
Definition of stimuli
Noun
  • As franchise valuations continue to climb, leagues like the NBA and even the NFL are welcoming new types of deal structures from new types of buyers with new types of motivations.
    — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Meanwhile, a square between Mars and Neptune retrograde is slowly coming together, becoming exact tomorrow, which can make our desires and motivations all the more perplexing.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of motivations
Noun
  • Lower courts had tossed out the last-ditch appeals to save Bruce by concluding the animal rescue lacked a concrete interest in the dog's survival sufficient to challenge the dangerousness finding by local authorities.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • If successful, the appeals could potentially lead to lower costs tied to the jury trial awards.
    — Sean Emery, Oc Register, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of appeals
Noun
  • Wallen specializes in whiskey-drunk seductions to skeptical girls who can’t resist his charms.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026
  • So, who was it from our universe that would be most susceptible to that kind of messaging, or who would find the seductions of the power offered by that the most compelling?
    — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 3 Mar. 2026
Definition of seductions
Noun
  • Angels doesn’t feel architectural in nearly the same way, but the strange impulses and movements of the book are really appealing.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The warring impulses ought to cancel each other out, but Dante orchestrates his films’ elements so deftly that the contradictions enrich each other and create a worldview more distinctive and complex than those of Lucas and Spielberg.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of impulses
Noun
  • Many folks send encouragements toward OP mom and her son, while others put heat on the other parents for sexualizing their kids’ friendship.
    — DeVonne Goode, Parents, 26 July 2026
  • All through the park, competitors and onlookers hit vapes and shout tips and encouragements into trees.
    — Calin Van Paris, Outside, 19 Mar. 2026
Definition of encouragements
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