as in to excite
to cause a pleasurable stimulation of the feelings
tabloids titillate their readers with racy details about the private lives of media-created celebrities
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Recent Examples of titillate
Later in the day, interactions with someone younger, especially from the past, will be warm and friendly, and perhaps even titillating.
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Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 18 July 2025
Studio Gannett With its noisy buzz of titillating political intrigue, Washington, D.C., isn't known for sitting still and dishing up boring.
—Kathryn Streeter, USA Today, 28 May 2025
Pretending to love the enemy, spurred on by her real love, the romantic plot provides the film’s clever, titillating energy.
—Paul Vidich, People.com, 2 May 2025
Place Pigalle titillated audiences in Miami Beach for decades.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2025
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Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 18 July 2025
Studio Gannett With its noisy buzz of titillating political intrigue, Washington, D.C., isn't known for sitting still and dishing up boring.
—Kathryn Streeter, USA Today, 28 May 2025
Pretending to love the enemy, spurred on by her real love, the romantic plot provides the film’s clever, titillating energy.
—Paul Vidich, People.com, 2 May 2025
Place Pigalle titillated audiences in Miami Beach for decades.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for titillate
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Where atomic clocks measure time by tracking electrons shifting between quantum states excited by a microwave oscillator, nuclear clocks turn inward, measuring transitions within the nucleus itself.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
16 Sep. 2025
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Mountain bikers in particular should be excited by this, as the Gateway Trail System, just outside of downtown Old Fort, is now open with a new parking area.—
Graham Averill,
Outside,
16 Sep. 2025
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The 6-1, 204-pound right winger is thrilled to share a line with Dvorsky and Stenberg.—
Jeremy Rutherford,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2025
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The Bishops’ persistence was rewarded when Maeve Delaney scored off a corner kick, which thrilled the team and head coach Gary Burke.—
Hannah Hughes,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
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Turnstile — in the midst of their breakout year — electrified the airwaves.—
Audrey Gibbs,
Nashville Tennessean,
16 Sep. 2025
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There, on opening night in August 1912, an audience in aigrettes and opera cloaks had watched, electrified, as Vaslav Nijinsky danced The Spectre of the Rose with the Ballets Russes.—
Leslie Camhi,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Sep. 2025
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