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• v  provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion

• Merchandising depends on adjectives (new, improved) that must be continually recharged with notions that entice people to buy.
• Twenty years ago, the people of surrounding Fremont County ponied up $160,000 to buy some open land outside Florence, hoping to entice the bureau to build a prison complex as a way .
• The areas around the French capital are adapting to entice tourists and revitalize the suburbsPhotographs for PTI by Emmanuel Fradin.

• lure
• tempt

News & Articles

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• U.S. official sentenced for attempting to entice a minor
  A former U.S. Central Command official has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for attempting to entice a minor for sex.
  June 14, 2013 - First Coast News
• Centcom official sentenced to 10 years
  A former U.S. Central Command official has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for attempting to entice a minor for sex.
  June 14, 2013 - WTSP-TV Tampa
• Central Command official sentenced to 10 years in federal prison
  A former U.S. Central Command official has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for attempting to entice a minor for sex.
  June 14, 2013 - FOX 35 Orlando

Quotes

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• Brett Favre in CNN International
  I have no qualms about admitting I talked to them,Favre said. "Talking with Milt, he said, 'Brett, did they entice you?' I said no, 'I don't need to be enticed anywhere.' They absolutely did not entice me to come to Minnesota."
• Brian Frons in Los Angeles Times
  Going in we knew we would have an amazing year with her, and that anything beyond that would be gravy,Frons said. "But we were willing to take the chance because we understood what a coup it was to entice Ro back to daytime television. So...
• Tony Blair in International Herald Tribune
  It's a very long and deep struggle but we have to stand up and be counted for what we believe in and take the fight to those people who want to entice young people into something wicked and violent but utterly futile,Blair told journalists at...