as in seducer
a woman whom men find irresistibly attractive
a siren who could captivate any audience
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Recent Examples of siren
Celebrity Style Fitted blazers will bring your office siren looks into 2025.
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Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 27 Jan. 2025
The pursuit spanned 10 city blocks and ended tragically when Hylton-Brown was struck by an oncoming car as Sutton accelerated without his vehicle's emergency lights and sirens.
—Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
TikTok's siren eyes trend was big in 2022, but its impact is still apparent today.
—Loren Savini, Allure, 22 Jan. 2025
And on Friday night, that signal became a siren through his vote against Pete Hegseth’s nomination to lead the Pentagon, forcing Vice President J.D. Vance to make history by casting just the second Cabinet nominee’s tie-breaker.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 27 Jan. 2025
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Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 27 Jan. 2025
The pursuit spanned 10 city blocks and ended tragically when Hylton-Brown was struck by an oncoming car as Sutton accelerated without his vehicle's emergency lights and sirens.
—Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
TikTok's siren eyes trend was big in 2022, but its impact is still apparent today.
—Loren Savini, Allure, 22 Jan. 2025
And on Friday night, that signal became a siren through his vote against Pete Hegseth’s nomination to lead the Pentagon, forcing Vice President J.D. Vance to make history by casting just the second Cabinet nominee’s tie-breaker.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 27 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for siren
Noun
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In the musical thriller, Lopez stars as Aurora, a fantasy temptress conjured up by Luis Molina, a gay hairdresser imprisoned during a war in Argentina circa 1981, along with Valentin Arregui Paz, a Marxist.—
Angel Saunders,
People.com,
26 Jan. 2025
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No Good Deed does have an undeniably fantastic cast at its disposal, from Luke Wilson as an unhappy soap actor to Linda Cardellini as a blonde temptress, from Denis Leary as a dangerous ex-con to the great Anna Maria Horsford as the overbearing mom of one prospective buyer.—
Dave Nemetz,
TVLine,
12 Dec. 2024
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The fundamental elements of African American music were the sounds of enslaved Africans; cries, hollers, call and response, additive rhythms, bent notes, hand-clapping, stomps and constant repetition of rhythmic and melodic phrasing (from which riffs and vamps were derived).—
Ronald E. Scott,
New York Daily News,
1 Feb. 2025
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The True Blood vamp plays a wealthy novelist who accidentally kills a local man at a seaside resort and discovers there’s a way for rich people to avoid the law in this part of the world.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
7 Jan. 2025
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Holding an axe, she was portrayed as a murderous, wealth-seeking seductress who had beheaded her husbands, evident by their heads disappearing from the wedding portraits scattered around the attic.—
Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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Catherine is a tease, a seductress — a teenager’s wet dream and a mother’s worst nightmare.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
22 Oct. 2024
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Soon, a slinking femme fatale named Silver enters the scene, looking to rent out a room and perhaps purchase the venue, something that P-Sam is also discussing.—
Rob Hubbard,
Twin Cities,
14 Feb. 2025
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Within a decade of Mahler’s death, Mahler-Werfel had acquired a reputation as a femme fatale, a sort of intellectual dominatrix.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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“Siren.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/siren. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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