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beckoning

/ˈbɛkənɪŋ/ noun C2
  1. Such a wave or similar action.

Plural beckonings

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THE next afternoon Anne, bending over her patchwork at the kitchen window, happened to glance out and beheld Diana down by the Dryad’s Bubble beckoning mysteriously.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 124 · C1
Anne sighed and, dragging her eyes from the witcheries of the spring world, the beckoning day of breeze and blue, and the green things upspringing in the garden, buried herself resolutely in her book.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 266 · C1
The sophisticated algorithm helpfully presents thousands of meticulously categorized films and television series, beckoning with glossy, highly curated promotional images.
The Tyranny of Choice, p. 1 · C2

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