intriguing
adjective
in·trigu·ing
in-ˈtrē-giŋ 
: engaging the interest to a marked degree : fascinating
an intriguing story
Examples of intriguing in a Sentence
The Huns are intriguing not only because of their notoriously hawkish history, but also because of their place as middlemen between Mongol and Turkic ethnicity.
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Victor L. Mote, Siberia, 1998
The next two phases of the Cambrian … mark the strangest, most important, and most intriguing of all episodes in the fossil record of animals—the short interval known as the Cambrian explosion …
—Stephen Jay Gould, Natural History, July/August 1998
The folklorist Jan Brunvand has documented hundreds of "urban legends," intriguing stories that everyone swears happened to a friend of a friend … and that circulate for years in nearly identical form in city after city, but that can never be documented as real events.
—Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct, 1994
The offer is very intriguing.
an intriguing concept that should engender much debate among climatologists
Victor L. Mote, Siberia, 1998
The next two phases of the Cambrian … mark the strangest, most important, and most intriguing of all episodes in the fossil record of animals—the short interval known as the Cambrian explosion …
—Stephen Jay Gould, Natural History, July/August 1998
The folklorist Jan Brunvand has documented hundreds of "urban legends," intriguing stories that everyone swears happened to a friend of a friend … and that circulate for years in nearly identical form in city after city, but that can never be documented as real events.
—Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct, 1994
The offer is very intriguing.
an intriguing concept that should engender much debate among climatologists
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H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 13 Sep. 2025
One of several intriguing questions from the Big 12’s offseason might have the beginnings of an answer.
—Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
New York Men’s Day offered up a group of intriguing — and salable — emerging brands in an elevated new space.
—Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 12 Sep. 2025
Smaller and simpler is an intriguing management strategy in a world where we’ve been taught to equate success with being bigger and more complex.
—Diane Brady, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
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“Intriguing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intriguing. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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