intriguer

Definition of intriguernext

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Noun
  • According to court records, between July 2024 and August 2025, the brothers and unnamed co-conspirators orchestrated an identity theft ring that defrauded SNAP programs in New Jersey, Massachusetts, and other states.
    Joe Marusak July 2, Charlotte Observer, 2 July 2026
  • According to prosecutors, Edmond was directed by co-conspirators to make straw purchases of firearms from Georgia gun stores that were later transported and distributed to gang members in the Chicago area.
    Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • The film is set in a declining industrial city in Northeast China and traces a young man’s search for his father, a small-time schemer who chased quick riches during the freewheeling capitalist surge of the late 1990s and early 2000s in Southern China.
    Marcus Lim, Variety, 18 June 2026
  • Readers may learn about the Florida aquifer, cowhunters, deadhead logging, old-school conservationists such as Marjory Stoneman Douglas and even Charles Ponzi, the famed schemer.
    Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Liz resented being portrayed in the media as a plotter in James’s coup-in-waiting.
    Gabriel Sherman, Vanity Fair, 14 Jan. 2026
  • At the latter, socially inept Nick manages to make a conquest of Maxwell’s wife Cynthia (Lucy Punch), who’s disgruntled enough to appoint herself a third plotter against her own husband.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 27 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The king refused to look at it, and issued the Proclamation of Rebellion, declaring the colonists traitors and hiring 30,000 German mercenaries to help crush them.
    The Week UK, TheWeek, 4 July 2026
  • Harper suspects Bichette, after seven seasons in Toronto, won’t be treated as a traitor.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • Faiq’s co-coconspirator allegedly had an altercation with the victims’ son in a Miami nightclub in July 2024.
    Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 9 June 2026
  • His coconspirator, Gary Cox, was previously convicted and sentenced to 15 years over his part in the scheme.
    Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • The Conservatives, currently led by Kemi Badenoch, slammed Braverman following her defection, characterizing her as an inevitable turncoat and questioning her mental faculties.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 26 Jan. 2026
  • But the result is that a fair number of former Sanders allies or staffers have turned out to be MAGA turncoats, cranks, or washed out of politics altogether.
    Ryan Cooper, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2026
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“Intriguer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intriguer. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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