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
While men led the team on the field, women’s role in big-time Baptist college football was to titillate and entertain.
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Hunter M. Hampton / Made By History, TIME, 9 Jan. 2025
Nathan is scandalized by this while the show is titillated.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024
In a professional setting such a platform could adapt in real-time to an employee’s performance, titillate curiosity and encourage a growth mindset.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
But something else had viewers' curiosity titillated.
—Jillian Sederholm, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2024
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Hunter M. Hampton / Made By History, TIME, 9 Jan. 2025
Nathan is scandalized by this while the show is titillated.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024
In a professional setting such a platform could adapt in real-time to an employee’s performance, titillate curiosity and encourage a growth mindset.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
But something else had viewers' curiosity titillated.
—Jillian Sederholm, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2024
See All Example Sentences for titillate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for titillate
Verb
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The curly-haired among us will be particularly excited to know that using it to dry locks after a shower leads to big, defined, and hydrated curls.—
Stacia Datskovska,
WWD,
3 Mar. 2025
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Cena appeared to be excited by what was happening as was the crowd in Toronto.—
Ryan Gaydos,
Fox News,
2 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Ryan Poles is thrilled with the vision Ben Johnson has set over the past month.—
Dan Wiederer,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2025
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Still, following a high-profile premiere in this year’s Berlinale Special section, festival programmers and more experimentally inclined distributors should thrill to the new film’s sensory and political potency.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
23 Feb. 2025
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Her ability to electrify an audience—whether in an intimate club or a massive event—has always been part of her magic.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
21 Feb. 2025
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Pit stop not a dead end For now, the plan to electrify the fleet is technically in place in both counties.—
Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Titillate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/titillate. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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