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Arresting

//əˈɹɛstɪŋ// adj, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    striking, gripping

    "This story of how American originality lost its way is arresting and well told. On an alternate timeline without Donald Trump in office dismantling the American scientific establishment and Elon Musk kneecapping the American state, it might have been the manifesto of a new politics."

Adjective
  1. 1
    commanding attention wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of arrest form-of, gerund, participle, present

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