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"piqued" Definitions
  1. annoyed or upset
"piqued" Antonyms
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745 Sentences With "piqued"

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The announcement has piqued the curiosity of Republicans in Washington.
Nothing had set him on fire or piqued his interest.
But it was two other outsiders who piqued his interest.
Their curiosity was piqued by where it had come from.
My curiosity was piqued and I ended up coming here.
Few people had, which is why the subject piqued imaginations.
It is little wonder why Green's interest had been piqued.
What first piqued your interest about reporting on the company?
"It really piqued my interest," Reichert told The Seattle Times.
Bolt Bikes has piqued the interest of more than investors.
That piqued our interest — what secret information did Amazon get?
We can see why it piqued the interest of investors.
Below are a few other items that piqued my interest.
And when I watched the trailer, it was seriously piqued.
But Williams had something that piqued Bradford's interest: a trombone.
Piqued by the image, Mr. Louboutin began doodling similar shoes.
It has also piqued the interest of the world's bettors.
Yet not everyone he was asked about piqued his interest.
Together, these have piqued investors' interest, says Fernando Aguirre, a lawyer.
Brennan's curiosity was piqued, and he soon began visiting 218chan daily.
" Then their interest would be piqued: "How did you find it?
As a result, Mayer's interest became piqued — and he started digging.
Those results piqued the interest of an international group of scientists.
Calculator Manhattan properties piqued the interest of our readers last month.
This is what piqued his interest in the other 98 percent.
The ecstasy he felt as she fucked him piqued her curiosity.
Instead, Mr. True said it has piqued the interest of guests.
A new cake decorating trend has piqued our Pinterest interest: geode cakes.
But it was a particular definition one day that piqued her interest.
Literally anyone's big, sausage-y, old Hollywood-style waves piqued my interest.
Riding in ambulances and helping during emergencies piqued my interest in medicine.
The building's strange appearance has piqued the interest of online conspiracy theorists.
A co-op building on far West 2500th Street piqued their interest.
There was also a "pictures gallery" at school that piqued my interest.
The Labo announcement a couple of weeks back certainly piqued my curiosity.
CNN: What are some unique characteristics of seals that piqued your interest?
The image piqued the attention of women who had done wartime work.
That piqued my curiosity about the quality of the Mets' finishing school.
One amenity, pheasant shooting, piqued the interest of Judge William H. Walls.
Professor Burrows's passion for history was piqued when he was in college.
Amateur musical theater piqued J. D.'s interest, so he tried that.
The rest of Analog's business was what really piqued tech investors' interest.
This piqued my interest, as many WaPo headlines and Milbank posts do.
Several researchers said their interest in CBD was piqued by patient inquiries.
All that being said, Barack Obama origin movie Barry has piqued our interest.
Are there any really exciting advances in this area that piqued your curiosity?
Which is exactly why my interest was piqued when I saw Bento Stack.
That rave review piqued his interest and Greycroft started the due diligence process.
My interest was piqued and my life-satisfaction FOMO kicked into high gear.
" Interest piqued, the follow-up question is always: "How much does it cost?
And our interest has definitely been piqued by Kesha's explanation of her inspiration.
The incidents piqued public concern, though the Pentagon has said they're considered routine.
Our interest is piqued, but OITNB isn't giving anything away with this one.
What piqued Detore's interest about the product is the promise of recurring revenue.
Given my preconceived notions regarding the dolphins' unrelenting horniness, my curiosity was piqued.
Their simplistic principles, as opposed to biology or social studies, piqued his interest.
"It'll be great," he enthused in the Facebook post that piqued my attention.
There was karaoke, and a trailer for the film that piqued our interest.
But what's really piqued my interest for the future is the custom suite.
My interest was piqued by a promoted tweet and fueled by dietary nihilism.
The openness of the dom and our subsequent conversation, however, piqued my curiosity.
Glowing reviews, coupled with questions from friends and colleagues, initially piqued my curiosity.
But when the interest is piqued, we can't help but go with it.
Naturally, the event has piqued the curiosity of more than one Wall Streeter.
Two names have piqued his interest, in particular — Square and its peer PayPal.
What piqued my curiosity about Benioff was his upending of the genre altogether.
There was one device that always piqued my interest: the Magic Bullet blender.
Many didn't know what to make of the jarring trailer, but it piqued interest.
And as enthusiasts ourselves, our interest in her plant-owning habits was immediately piqued.
It's not just curiosity about pantsuits that's been piqued: People are actually clicking buy.
Aloy's curiosity in the world that came before is piqued from a young age.
Or someone from Ithaca piqued that they had lived in Cornell's first coed residence.
Probably not, but you should probably watch this video now that your curiosity's piqued.
Still, the sheer number of celebs that now own chickens has piqued our interest.
So that was definitely something that kind of definitely piqued my interest in Jed.
Rebels really piqued my interest in it & inspired me to take a closer look.
The code bank, meanwhile, has piqued the interest of the Brazilian and Peruvian governments.
Recently, however, life sciences have piqued Sequoia's fascination, confirms a spokesperson with the firm.
But when English filmmaker Andrea Arnold is behind the camera, my curiosity is piqued.
That post somehow made it to Susan Gallon's feed, and her interest was piqued.
My interest in other driving simulations, like American Truck Simulator, has also been piqued.
ERNA SOLBERG, Norway's prime minister, piqued the interest of the press worldwide last week.
I got 18, which is quite bad, and was what piqued Winstock's clear concern.
It was the finance industry's increasingly close relationship with tech that piqued his curiosity.
But the company had piqued Amazon's interest earlier, according to one of the sources.
This full-scope approach has at the very least piqued the interest of marketers.
His dedication to privacy during his last days ultimately piqued everyone's curiosity about him.
"It was just one of those subjects that piqued his interest," the source said.
I'm not sure why, but that experience really piqued my interest in cryptic crosswords.
Her experience piqued the interest of the government's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
However, she acknowledged that the market rout had piqued the interest of Fed policymakers.
Or maybe Mr. Trump saw something about Canada on television that piqued his ire.
It also piqued Getty's interest in adding a Bauhaus work to her personal trove.
It also piqued Getty's interest in adding a Bauhaus work to her personal trove.
David's been talking to the sightseers and they all say Tarantino's film piqued their interest.
And given payments is now its monetization focus, it's clear why Levchin's interest is piqued.
Which is why the idea of a more-affordable exfoliating option immediately piqued my interest.
And it made an impression on me, sort of piqued my interest in national politics.
I personally had never been a major-league Supra fan, but my curiosity was piqued.
His interest was piqued by a television program about the 1987 Cup in Fremantle, Australia.
When the attention of Hanoi authorities was piqued, the restaurant had some 'splaining to do.
But her interest is piqued when a friend introduces her to the call-girl lifestyle.
Success there has piqued interest in other offshore regions of Brazil, including Foz de Amazonas.
This discovery piqued my curiosity, and I started looking into other subsidiaries incorporated by Uber.
His interest was piqued during a visit to the observatory when he was a child.
Although he eventually hit a dead end, his interest in cold cases had been piqued.
Once Mercury enters Virgo on Wednesday, your curiosity around publishing and higher education is piqued.
But as much as it piqued his curiosity, he felt a constant fear deep inside.
Three, those reports piqued the attention of lawmakers, raising the prospect of more serious intervention.
Real Madrid's interest has been piqued; so, too, has that of Manchester City and Chelsea.
Rauschenberg had ample opportunity to hear about the torments of hell, which piqued his imagination.
Several elements of the disappearances, which occurred last June, have piqued widespread interest in Britain.
The fresh daily pageant of strangers' faces, both bizarre and beautiful, also piqued the muse.
Then an email squabble with sports apparel giant Nike piqued his interest in viral media.
The extraordinary award for damages has piqued the interest of the creative set in Hollywood.
If they piqued his interest and lived nearby, he followed them home to continue observing.
Even a couple of days later, how exactly this piqued his interest isn't entirely clear.
That experience piqued my interest in physics, astronomy, and cosmology, which I've been studying ever since.
But his unique twist on it has somehow piqued GOP officials across the foreign policy spectrum.
The geological phenomenon has piqued the curiosity of many visitors and residents of the Big Island.
What really piqued my interest was developing friendships with artists and getting to know their preoccupations.
Things changed, though, in 2003, when flooding exposed the forest which has piqued Dr Büntgen's interest.
And poor Arie looks a little piqued, as if he still can't really comprehend the situation.
America's interest in the poppier, more commercially friendly version of the once underground genre was piqued.
If your curiosity is piqued, you can score it for a cool $9 at Molly Cosmetics.
Some of the shipwreck's shinier debris initially piqued searchers' interest as possibly being pieces of MH2000.
Some of the shipwreck's shinier debris initially piqued searchers' interest as possibly being pieces of MH370.
There's also Museo Subacuático de Arte, an underwater art gallery that has seriously piqued our interest.
There were, however, items that piqued officers' suspicions: handcuffs, fake badges and sex literature involving minors.
Top White House lawyer John Eisenberg, who has piqued investigators' interest, is slated to testify today.
Piqued with hunger, Macdonald headed to a luncheonette, called Peggy Sue's, a couple of blocks away.
Rent the Runway is not new to the market, but the concept always ​piqued my interest​.
" His interest piqued, he decided to see if he could "pull the birds from the sky.
These organic patterns and forms, like those found in shells or plants, always piqued Franck's interest.
The data piqued the interest of officials in the audience from the California Air Resources Board.
Nonetheless, a stuffed Kong was the only toy that piqued the interest of my first dog.
Although Merrill didn't wear a microphone, hearing her name over and over piqued the audience's curiosity.
The maneuver piqued the attention of the less tech-savvy Gen-Xers and millennials on Twitter.
If we have piqued your curiosity about this race, here is a suggestion: Get some coffee.
But as Giuliani began raising the issue of Biden and his son, Trump's interest was piqued.
Seeing Montgomery pitch in person this spring as a nonroster invitee piqued Girardi's interest even more.
The move piqued interest in France, and a degree of curiosity from the rest of Europe.
" Her interest piqued, Hillary asked around about the watermelon enthusiast and someone told her, "That's Bill Clinton.
That rise has piqued the interest of Hollywood, where the candidate has headlined a number of fundraisers.
Profiles on Tinder hardly piqued my interest, and the few dates I'd been on never went well.
This has once again piqued public interest in her life, including her marriage to publisher George Putnam.
Reluctant to follow another bad lead, Dave's interest was piqued when some of Gabriel's information sounded credible.
Then, when I see it pop up again and again in myriad profiles, my interest is piqued.
It was a weird year, but there were still a bunch of cars that piqued our interest.
Although sexy anime boys are what piqued my interest, they certainly aren't what kept me coming back.
Their interest in Fieri clearly piqued, Peters and Hounshell asked Sylvia for his opinion of Haas' girlfriend.
I heard Sam was also doing nothing and that piqued my interest, as he's an old friend.
So, when I came across Dr. Jart+'s charcoal-packed Pore Minimalist mask, my interest was piqued.
On his first day in town, Counts visited Kiatmoo9, and immediately piqued the curiosity of the fighters.
The pledging of so much money has piqued the interest of international investors in Riyadh this week.
Dr. Sheikhzadeh's network of relationships with influential Iranians may have piqued Washington's interest long before his arrest.
The company's plant-based meat has also piqued the interest of companies such as Dunkin' and HelloFresh.
My interest is piqued, after solving this puzzle and looking into the story's plot a bit more.
His signature dishes not only pleased the palate; they also seduced the eye and piqued the imagination.
The use of sign language compared to the usual type-in-your-name format piqued my interest.
I'll be at Pittsburgh, my interest piqued by David Allen's superb essay in praise of that orchestra.
And the music she and her friends listened to had an urgent beat that piqued their curiosity.
Even in the technology's earliest days, it piqued the interest of intelligence agencies and law enforcement officials.
In 10th grade, we were asked to do a "personal project" about something that piqued our interest.
Darryl Zanuck flirted with producing it, his interest piqued by the actress slated to play both twins.
Ms. Jones, a first-year at Ohio State, said listening to the officeholders had piqued her interest.
His interest piqued, he informally toured the property a few weeks later while in town for business.
"She preferred to toss money at a cause or concern that piqued her interest," Ms. Napoli wrote.
The latter murderous detail is what piqued King's Dominion's interest in the homeless teen in the first place.
A church book discussion about lynchings piqued Wesley Edwards' curiosity in area hate crimes, leading to Austin Callaway.
Candyhunting recently posted a photo of these new pizza bagels on Instagram, and it certainly piqued our interest.
So, my interest was piqued, and when I called him back, he just launched right into this plan.
With that in mind, a surefire way of keeping interest in your personal brand piqued is through antics.
Every time we hear about a celebrity test-driving a strange new treatment, our interest is immediately piqued.
When Brazilian photographer Luisa Dörr first heard about the community of Itabaianinha on TV, her curiosity was piqued.
These works alone won me over, as well as piqued my curiosity to know more about the artist.
Piqued by Mr Cameron's barbs, the popular mayor is now throwing his full weight behind the Out campaign.
The removal of Nene saw the South African rand depreciate sharply and piqued investors' concerns about the government.
Her interest piqued, she began going to fetish parties, reading BDSM literature, and practicing the art of domination.
Ms. Grossman's curiosity about her old college acquaintance was piqued, so she sent him a message on Facebook.
Mildly piqued, he called the local newspaper to suggest a small article about the lack of parking spots.
Needless to say, my curiosity is piqued, but I'm still hesitant to venture into the homemade poppers circuit.
The newfound interest in messaging has been piqued in large part by an explosion of newly discovered planets.
Some lesser-known funds and angel investors failed to score any meetings with companies that piqued their interest.
The raid on Cohen piqued the president's anger and damaged the relationship between his lawyers and Mueller's team.
It has piqued the interest of highly valued start-ups that have raised billions from private market investors.
In 2250, he piqued our curiosity with an excellent DJ-Kicks mix full of charming and soulful edits.
A native Australian, it was his love for old English autos that first piqued his interest in sketching cars.
The Punisher—the latest in Netflix's line of super-gritty Marvel adaptations—has piqued fans' curiosity for a while.
So when Hadid posted a picture of herself giving the middle finger to the camera, our interest was piqued.
Hassabis often played Go with a coworker, and, piqued by his colleague's interest, Silver began learning on his own.
Often overlooked, the Best Animated Feature category has piqued some interest this year because of a few unexpected nominations.
The university recently announced a new music major, Commercial Music and Technology, which also reportedly piqued the DJ's interest.
But it was Rasmussen's letter that piqued public interest and led to the condemnation of her band, Good English.
But Manchester, who has given the maximum to Trump Victory, was piqued when informed of the new Ricketts venture.
Her interest to pursue the career stems back to earlier days when her brother's project first piqued her curiosity.
I wasn't necessarily looking to expose bad things, but there had to be some facts that piqued my fancy.
But Apple likes to always keep us guessing what's next, and this latest rumor has definitely piqued our interest.
But just the night before I had heard a rather reliable friend mention the app, which piqued my curiosity.
Your psychic intuition is piqued as the sun harmonizes with mystical Neptune, thinning the veil between reality and dreams.
A starring role in "The Fast and Furious" movies also piqued interest among a new generation of driving enthusiasts.
The tradition piqued the interest of the US National Institutes of Health, where scientists started studying acupuncture in 1997.
Kombucha is one that's really piqued my interest in the last couple of years because of its divisive taste.
But when we heard Gwyneth Paltrow would be introducing her very own skin-care line, our interest was piqued.
Plus, brands like Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop had piqued the cultural interest in non-medical and alternative forms of treatment.
That piqued young Kageyama's curiosity and he cobbled together some lenses and cardboard to create a basic DIY telescope.
That inconsistency piqued the curiosity of the researchers behind the current study, recently published in the journal Psychological Science.
Their interest was also piqued by the historic district in Jackson Heights, Queens, where some friends had recently relocated.
The company wants to completely upend real estate in Latin America, and those big ambitions have piqued investor interest.
I was surprised that she replied the message and so it piqued my interest and I immediately messaged her.
Once I got FLEXAGON though, by the crosses mainly, my curiosity was piqued and I looked the things up.
"Twilight Company was one of the first things that piqued our interest in telling a soldier's story," Thompson said.
When I heard that the BBC and HBO were collaborating on a new adaptation, though, my interest was piqued.
"The bulbousness was definitely something that piqued my curiosity, and also the way that it was sticky," she said.
In this case, Sekulow piqued the Secret Service so much it chose to publicly contradict him on national television.
His official interest in cocktails was piqued when he observed a bartender in Tokyo cutting a giant ice cube.
The Top Stories box is crucial, and Google is still most people's first go-to when their curiosity is piqued.
But the surprise Brexit vote and Trump's shock victory piqued Western interest and gave this social media manipulation international attention.
I suspect Brexit has piqued the interest of many cities in becoming the global hub for digital financial services platforms.
If this rare astronomical sight has piqued your curiosity, focus on the southeastern sky (if you're in the Northern Hemisphere).
Curiosity piqued, he started digging through the code, where he found perhaps the last thing he expected: Apple's next iPhone.
It may or may not have been done out of pettiness, but that hasn't stopped people's interest from being piqued.
The Japanese automakers' interest was partly piqued by the 23 Fukushima nuclear disaster that resulted in blackouts, according to Trahand.
Your philosophical side is piqued as Mercury, the planet of the mind, meets aesthetic Venus, encouraging you to sound off.
His curiosity is piqued: he drives all the way from Missouri to San Bernardino, California, to check out the business.
Or maybe you read a review of the new John Wick Hex PC-only game and it piqued your curiosity.
These relationships piqued Papadopoulos's interest, especially since the connections could help him be a more influential figure in the campaign.
I'm not passing judgement just yet, but it's piqued my curiosity enough that I'll be trying it out for myself.
After Rae piqued HBO's interest, she spent a hard three years nailing down the details of what would become Insecure.
"What is that," she asked—her interest piqued—her need for some perfect blend of Fitbit and Apple Watch apparent.
Apple's deep pockets piqued Hollywood's attention as it entered the original programming race and poached two Sony Pictures Television executives.
The little edible gem piqued our curiosity: What other charming produce is out there that we just don't know about?
His fascination with the game was really piqued three years later, while watching his father play his older sister Ellen.
The ability to integrate what3words into voice assistants is what has piqued the interest and investment from Sony and others.
"The fact that there had been no real alternative to dangerous canned air so that piqued my interest," he said.
Those speeches, which were anti-immigrant in nature, had piqued law enforcement's concerns that he was inciting hate in Poland.
Then, apparently piqued over being asked to speak about national security during his address to the convention, Clinton went rogue.
His choices ran the gamut, and so did mine — until my curiosity was piqued by Netflix's "Gay and Lesbian" section.
The festival gets underway today in Park City, Utah, and we've picked 11 from the lineup that piqued our interest.
As Williams headed into free agency last summer, he piqued the curiosity of a certain organization bewitched by playoff failures.
Locksley started collaborating with Klein, his UCSF colleague and a stem cell biologist: The unanticipated result had piqued his interest.
We are beguiled by the bench, wowed by the tureen, amused by the bedspread, and piqued by the wall label.
Even though I had absolutely no experience as a domme, I immediately applied, because something about it piqued my interest.
Political newbies: Both movements piqued the interest and involvement of people who had not been politicly inclined before the election.
And if that momentous premise hasn't already piqued your curiosity, here are four more reasons to watch (and love) iZombie.
Aides say Clinton's interest in the region's economic troubles was piqued after she left the U.S. State Department in 2013.
There's a tiredness to the language: Curiosity is piqued, suspicions are sneaking, people stare dumbstruck, clouds are low and leaden.
He said that his interest started to be piqued again once he started reading about it in major media outlets.
Recently, however, attention to the building has returned, piqued by scores of international books, telenovelas and movies about Mr. Escobar.
Morissette When the ["Jagged Little Pill" musical] producers came to me, years ago, I was piqued and flattered and charmed.
A young minority Republican from the Bronx really piqued my interest, and I wanted to come meet and help him.
Shapland's interest is piqued: Annemarie's language in her letters to Carson is intimate, suggestive, or I read it that way.
As the market matured, his interest was piqued in developing technologies that could ascertain the quality of various cannabis products.
The growing popularity of hard seltzer — a fizzy, low-calorie alcoholic beverage typically made by fermenting sugar — piqued his interest.
Now that your interest is piqued, don't forget to invest in your chosen bag with a little extra love and care.
Pitman's curiosity was piqued by those pictures, so he started fishing through thousands of orca images taken in the Southern Ocean.
As Gizmodo reported out the trail of inconsistencies and dubious leaks, the interests of both House and Senate lawmakers was piqued.
Or you might otherwise be thinking, Go on... Over 438,000 people on Twitter had their interests piqued and their curiosities bristled.
So when we learned that Polish streetwear brand Reserved has the Kate Moss stamp of approval, our interest was immediately piqued.
These distant giants—full of gas and mystery—have certainly piqued our interest in recent years as exoplanet research has evolved.
Business Insider notes that all the attention that Whole Foods and Amazon garnered after the acquisition could have piqued shoppers' curiosity.
Cramer's interest is always piqued when a stock gets hit with a series of downgrades and then refuses to go lower.
His background piqued contemporary interests, not least because of his nationality and the feverish political situation in Germany at the time.
Then you might be piqued by a diet book from two self-described "formerly obese economists" on how to lose weight.
That piqued their interest, and one of the women asked me if I'd ever considered accepting Heavenly Father into my life.
Her grandmother Chencha — who would come to live with her parents — also piqued her curiosity about the town and its traditions.
Feeling burnt out with those songs, Barnes immediately set about visiting the locations that piqued his interest while on the road.
He is especially piqued by those who observe that science was sometimes used to justify monstrous ends, including racism and eugenics.
More than a decade later, The New Yorker published a piece on the drawings which piqued the interest of Werner Herzog.
Still, his remark about having a book in mind piqued the curiosity of New York Times climate change reporter Lisa Friedman.
Webhire, based in Massachusetts, was an online-recruiting business that had piqued the interest of investors such as Amazon and SoftBank.
A separate group of Equifax executives outside the duo that stepped down on Friday have also piqued the interest of politicians.
Looking up at her walls covered in the sepia-toned portraits of her Orthodox Jewish family, her interest is hardly piqued.
"As customer interest in plant-based options accelerated rapidly, our curiosity piqued, too," McDonald's executive Ann Wahlgren said in a statement.
He attended a large public high school on Chicago's Northwest Side, where his intellectual curiosity was piqued by computer science classes.
Admittedly, what first piqued my interest in Double Lives was how the museum's curators would accommodate an exhibition entirely about music.
Still, it's not exactly a secret — and a new Harper's Bazaar UK explainer has piqued interest in this contemporary label once again.
In an interview with The Verge last year, Larsen's project piqued our interest and inspired us to hunt for our own micrometeorites.
Ellis says that the company has already piqued the curiosity of NASA, which hopes to bring samples of Mars to Earth someday.
Nothing more was shared about this fleeting moment of coincidental revelation, but our curiosity is piqued, and we want to know more.
Page was adamant on making his doctoral thesis about the web and his research piqued Brin's interest, so the two joined forces.
The report has piqued expectations for a further Federal Reserve interest rate hike in March and another one later in the year.
That's why we compiled a list of some of the most unsuspecting aromas that have piqued the attention of our favorite artists.
No state was more piqued than Alabama, the least enthusiastic in the country about expanding marriage laws to include gays and lesbians.
That may not have piqued our interest on its own, but then she added: " Good things are coming...." STOP IT, YOU GUYS.
Kim Jong Un's younger sister and right-hand woman, Kim Yo Jong, is a mysterious figure whose life has piqued international curiosity.
Any time a witness refuses to answer questions, the government's interest is piqued because that looks like smoke coming from a fire.
My curiosity piqued, I looked for the most popular cosmetic surgeon in Kabul and made an appointment with one Zalmay Khan Ahmadzai.
The email also piqued my interest in what sorts of other nonacademic events were being organized by the school's administrative staff members.
Being highly visible from the street and at a busy intersection in Echo Park, "103 Park" piqued curiosity in neighbors and passersby.
The revelation by his longtime doctor that President Trump takes a medication to prevent hair loss has piqued curiosity about the drug.
But the document also piqued the interest of the F.B.I., which was investigating Russian meddling and possible ties to the Trump campaign.
The media blitz by his team ahead of the debate has piqued interest, leading to this article, and many others like it.
Tulsi Gabbard, too, with the (very cool) streak of gray in her hair, piqued interest in the American public, according to Google Trends.
That piqued O'Leary's interest, and he offered $250,000 for 5 percent equity and a royalty of $1.50 per unit until $750,000 is recouped.
His first assignment is doled out, his curiosity is piqued, and then... It's a fascinating short story with an end open to questions.
Car culture, which up until recently was infused with 20th century nostalgia, has piqued the imagination as transportation concepts are called into question.
Such potential has piqued the interest of large utilities worldwide and inspired a slew of startups to try their hand at the market.
That piqued my interest in Opera, which has a built-in VPN and, like Firefox, plenty of privacy protection and anti-tracking options.
I kept my feeds meticulously clean, poring over personal blog entries and tabbing quickly down the news, opening stories that piqued my interest.
But there's a certain skepticism piqued for music fans when the fashionistas come flocking: Is this just a case of style over substance?
On Monday, the model, 23, piqued fans' interest by sharing a glimpse on her Instagram story of a love letter she had received.
Daniels's claims piqued the interest of special counsel Robert Mueller, who handed off a piece of his investigation to authorities in New York.
You could take it at face value: a big Hollywood action movie, but there was a lot in there that piqued our curiosity.
When you are told that something is valuable—that it is rare, irreplaceable, or one-of-a-kind—your interest is naturally piqued.
Our initial interaction was in public, but her strong social media presence is what piqued my interest to forge a more serious relationship.
All of these benefits piqued the interest of Drunk Elephant founder Tiffany Masterson, who recently began using the ingredient in her brand's products.
Her curiosity piqued while she was photographing burlesque dancers and she realized how vast and freeing the world of nighttime performance truly is.
Your intuition is piqued as the sun clashes with electric Uranus, so be present in the madness like a stone in a river.
Drone warfare — and the knotty political and moral issues that accompany it — has increasingly piqued the interest of filmmakers, TV writers and playwrights.
The mention of Mr. Zhang piqued the interest of China analysts, who said the businessman had known ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
His daughter recalled him as a self-proclaimed "moody intellectual" whose imagination was piqued by the Soviet dissident movement in the early 1960s.
Austria's statement did not go into any more detail but has piqued curiosity given that it borders Italy and Slovenia to the south.
His interest piqued, the conversations continued, which lead to him adding 'money to invest in the stock market' to his Christmas wish list.
This mystical, ancestral scene piqued my curiosity regarding how King T'Chaka's legacy would unfold in T'Challa's reign as the new king of Wakanda.
He was in New York when he heard the symphony that piqued his infatuation with Mahler, an encounter that was completely by chance.
Maier's interest was piqued around 2007 when he saw a friend's post on Facebook about a new program, called public service loan forgiveness.
Our interest was beaked — er, piqued — this week when Country Living highlighted a rather unique Etsy find: a crocheted Christmas sweater for chickens.
"I guess it piqued investors' interest, but it would seem there's still a high degree of skepticism baked into current prices," said Ablin.
What's piqued his interest: the ouster of two of his White House aides, Rob Porter and David Sorensen, amid disturbing allegations of domestic abuse.
Swon, a milliner, pinpointed the bird from the massive oil painting, her interest piqued by the metal funnel (and spindly branch) atop its head.
When Reinhard realized the only person watching over this invaluable collection was a librarian named Betty Jean Gooch (Ann Dowd), his curiosity was piqued.
It is at this point that Stephen Colbert's curiosity was piqued and he had to know if J.K. Rowling also followed him on Twitter.
Yet as viewers of "Downton Abbey" know, it is not the glitz and ceremony—nor the history, however exquisitely rendered—that keeps audiences piqued.
If you're interest has been piqued, and you want to learn more about how Australia is tracking against global tech trends, then head here. 
Despite thinking the VR market might be a passing fad, the Beat Saber demo piqued his interest and led him to more online investigating.
I wasn't an Office fan when "Diwali" aired, but I remember catching a preview of it during Heroes and my interest was immediately piqued.
Yet, it piqued his sense of fairness—just as leaving the seat unused would have irritated the people at the back of the plane.
He clearly was piqued about parts of the assessment of Iran, ISIS, North Korea and Russia that conflict with his policies and public statements.
Chevron still runs the region's most productive oilfield, and EU sanctions against Russia may have piqued European interest in Central Asian oil and gas.
That's what security outfit F-Secure's Andy Patel did this week after having his curiosity piqued by a handful of strange likes on Twitter.
Meanwhile, whatever national pride Mr. Putin piqued in seizing Crimea is getting old, and the region's needs make a consistent claim on Russia's treasury.
Its interest was piqued after the struggling carrier discussed selling take-off and landing slots at Paris Orly to Spain's Vueling, the paper reported.
I also had a pile of logistical dilemmas, which piqued the interest of some English-speakers who'd overheard me discussing them with the conductor.
This desk in particular has piqued the curiosity of the researchers, who speculate that it might still contain documents, including written papers or maps.
Earn's interest is piqued, as Al has been pressing him to find a Jewish lawyer (a status symbol touted in many a rap lyric).
Their panic appeared to be piqued by a mass shooting, the deadliest in American history, that had just occurred at Pulse nightclub in Orlando.
His interest piqued, Nicklaus asked a man in the pro shop who the guy was with the Popeye forearms getting drenched on the range.
If you think your own experiences with therapy have piqued your partner's curiosity, let them know that can see the therapist individually as well.
This is not a movie I would ordinarily race out to see, but my interest was piqued by what I know about Ms. MacLaine.
Every evening, they surfed through StreetEasy and found their interest piqued by the rental towers in Downtown Brooklyn, an area they were unfamiliar with.
Tesla's stock has piqued the interest of professional and retail traders alike as they try to capitalize on the electric car maker's wild swings.
Patrick J. Toomey, Republican of Pennsylvania Mr. Toomey began reading about beekeeping last year after a college buddy and established beekeeper piqued his interest.
When he was about 10, his interest in archaeology was piqued by newspaper reports of treasures being unearthed from King Tutankhamen's tomb in Egypt.
Anyhow, I hope your interest is piqued even if you're not already a numismatist (or an acrostician, there's always demand for more of those).
When Bourdain opened the episode acknowledging his own position as a New Yorker going into the territory of the "existential enemy," my interest was piqued.
But the insanity has to stop, which is why it piqued my interest to hear how one CEO controls his inbox before it controls him.
The thought of being The One obviously piqued Dany's interest and she asked Tyrion to reach out to Jon so they could meet in person.
Like I mentioned, the whole thing piqued my interest because it's marketed as something to relieve stress and pain — not because it gets you stoned.
This sense of play, interacting with music, and being together with Adam within the VR space piqued my interest, and I wanted to know more.
The young man not long out of Eton and Oxford found the idea wearisome, but the outbreak of the second world war piqued his interest.
Starting a new esports organization isn't exactly easy, but Skylla really piqued the interest of women in the competitive CS scene right off the bat.
His hiring piqued the interest of several private equity firms because of his background with leverage buyouts, according to two people familiar with the matter.
English, however, was the primary language for that communication, which piqued Bali's interest and she had asked to see the data collected by the anthropologist.
Though a little dubious, our curiosity was piqued (as were many others), so I clicked "order," handed over $20, and settled into a looong wait.
His curiosity piqued, he called Mr. Crowe: Wouldn't her story, and that of the rest of the behind-the-scenes crew, be fascinating to tell?
" Jobs himself piqued Cook's interest: "This was an opportunity to talk to the guy who started a whole industry, the man who started the legacy.
The plan actually piqued Daniel's interest, since no talking was involved and the encounters would not require as much from him as human contact would.
I followed up, my interest piqued by the promise of an exchange if the iPhone 83 turns out to be shaped different than their designs.
News of the visit was picked up by The Des Moines Register and piqued the interest of an influential local group: The Polk County Democrats.
Its interest was piqued after the struggling carrier discussed selling valuable take-off and landing slots at Paris Orly to Spain's Vueling, the paper reported.
However, if Sony puts in a display with a fast refresh rate, like the OnePlus 7 Pro and Razer Phone 2, consider my interest piqued.
Below (as usual) you'll find some other reports in The Times that piqued my interest this week, plus some music recommendations from my Australian colleagues.
Mets 6, Marlins 3 MIAMI — Given the state of the Mets' starting rotation, some news out of Atlanta on Thursday may have piqued their interest.
According to a report from The Wall Street Journal released on Friday, the company has piqued the interest of buyout firms, including Apollo Global Management.
The 2014 inquiry did not draw conclusions about whether Caterpillar had broken the law, but it appears to have piqued the interest of federal investigators.
" Mr. Trump became piqued after Ms. Pelosi noted a loss of Republican power in Congress, saying, "And excuse me, Nancy, did we win the Senate?
Mr. Einstein's dry delivery piqued the interest of Tom Smothers, who offered him a job on the series that he hosted with his brother, Dick.
The unusually secretive way he has handled these meetings has left many in his own administration guessing what happened and piqued the interest of investigators.
Mr. Pike couldn't help him with the labor issue, but his interest was piqued when Mr. Patrick mentioned what his former employer, Pure Collection Ltd.
Lukas Graham first piqued interest in Denmark in the fall of 22012 when he posted a live video of his song "Criminal Mind" on YouTube.
So I just had to kind of bring the sounds that like piqued my interest as I scoured the internet into something kind of coherent.
Corinne's antics, as entertaining as they are, can only carry us through so many episodes, and we needed some new developments to keep our interest piqued.
The project piqued the interest of Timberlake's fans because his on-screen love interest, Cameron Diaz, also happened to be the actor's real life ex-girlfriend.
Naturally, the press's interest was piqued by this charismatic 25-year-old whom the reigning king of guitar rock had deemed fit to share his stage.
When Thomas Kilbride got a Segway MiniPro, its paired mobile app piqued his interest; by day, Kilbride works as an embedded device security consultant at IOActive.
Arquette rifled through submissions from her Twitter followers about questions they'd ask Roberts if they had the chance before landing on one that piqued her interest.
But what piqued our interest was a conversation she had with her date, G., about the protocol around who should pick up the bill on dates.
While the average gamer playing on a console in their family's home basement isn't necessarily using a VR headset yet, improved headset technology has piqued interest.
When Mr. Cruz described his desire to "build a wall," he inspired a piqued reaction from Mr. Trump, who has spoken often of doing the same.
Nearly a decade later, the story captivated headlines and piqued public interest in late 2015, after Netflix released a 10-part docu-series on the case.
I'm not sure the Lenovo Phab2 Pro will be the perfect phone, but it's the first one that's piqued my geek senses in quite a while.
So while I was somewhat intimidated to try Franklin's Aerial Physique class, my interest was piqued knowing that several celebs have been seen in the class!
The millennial-shaming sentiment has piqued The New Republic's Brian Beutler, who correctly notes that those pesky Baby Boomers compose the strongest constituency for Donald Trump.
The San Jose Mercury News reports that mysterious noises and weird goings-on have piqued the curiosity of neighbors around Apple's secretive workshop in Sunnyvale, Calif.
Naturally, her interest was piqued, so she grabbed her seriously chic fur coat and headed to her front steps to see what had prompted the noise.
So, if any of these dresses have piqued your interest, you may want to start saving your pennies now, before the warm weather settles in fully.
Now, however, corporate borrowers are facing rising interest rates while recent stock market volatility has piqued investor interest in the equity options embedded in the bonds.
She also told Fox News the video of the attempted escape artist had piqued interest in the pup, who has since had a slew of inquiries.
A place called home Baka life began to change around a century ago, when missionaries made contact and were piqued by the people's adherence to monotheism.
Their combined executive experience of 14 years has piqued the interest of those outside the party and helped them earn a second look by the media.
Why it matters: There are many factors contributing to a rise in paywalled news, like tech's ad dominance, and a piqued interest in all things Trump.
Investor and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban's interest in Rugged Races was first piqued in Shark Tank's fifth season when the founders made their initial pitch.
They had lost their two best guards to the NBA and with no one else available who really piqued their interest, the Sevens looked at Davis.
In between, he taught and studied at several graduate schools, including at Cornell, where a record cold in upstate New York piqued his curiosity about climate.
His public criticism of President Trump's controversial response to the white supremacist march-tuned riot in Charlottesville, Virginia in August has reportedly piqued the president's anger.
The globalization of the genre piqued the diaspora's interest in their homeland, encouraging them to partake in a culture that had been stripped away from them.
And while the idea may have piqued the interest of some network executives — Mr. Trump, after all, makes for good TV — it quickly drew further criticism.
Hopes for revived negotiations were piqued when Trump met with Kim at the Korean peninsula's demilitarized zone in June and agreed to resume working-level talks.
They've always made my eyes roll but have also piqued my curiosity about whether butlers actually have value or are nothing more than a marketing gimmick.
But he long had a passion for voice tech, piqued by conversational AI on screen — think Tony Stark&aposs AI Jarvis in the "Iron Man" movies.
Alonso, 212, who drove in his first Indy 2500 last year and plans to compete in only this sports-car race, has piqued more interest internationally.
My interest was only slightly piqued when it was revealed there is an entire sect of dickless people and their whole deal is that they're dickless.
Our interest as readers is piqued when there is some discrepancy between what we know to be true and the letter-writer's presentation of these facts.
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"It struck me as the analog equivalent of Pokemon Go." DeZon is not particularly enamored with fungus, but a mushroom-obsessed friend's Instagram feed piqued his interest.
So you can imagine that my interest was piqued when I heard about a non-invasive treatment that promises to give my buns a further aesthetic boost.
"It's a difficult thing to maintain all of the products that have piqued your interests across these multiple sites," Amjadi said in a phone call on Thursday.
Over the course of the week, Trump tweeted castigations of "celebs," apparently piqued that a massive women's march last weekend drew more people than his own inauguration.
In fact, it was a 1991 effort by Minnesota–based Northwest Airlines to secure about $1 billion in subsidies that first piqued Rolnick's interest in this phenomenon.
In times of stability and progressivism, engagement declines because people feel comfortable and become complacent; when things get dire and fears are piqued, interest comes flooding back.
Rarely has an upstart so piqued Tencent, a Chinese gaming and social-media titan which in November became Asia's first company worth over half-a-trillion dollars.
They are tuned to maximise "engagement", meaning they present users with the type of content that has already piqued their interest, as outrageous headlines tend to do.
Now Spinn's high-tech coffee maker is available for pre-order, so if it piqued your interest earlier this year, now's your chance to pick one up.
The science that has piqued interest in these drugs comes from pre-clinical lab work in animals, case reports, small clinical trials and large-scale observational studies.
Its salsa version of "Ne me quitte pas", by the Belgian singer Jacques Brel, piqued the interest of a producer, whose record company, Universal, distributed the album.
Regardless, diners at Nieto Senetiner usually have their interest piqued by the sight of a blonde ponytailed lady slicing through vast slabs of meat and moving embers.
Whether braids are your thing, accessories have piqued your interest, or you're in the market for a drastic haircut, you'll find the coolest summer hair inspo ahead.
If you're interest is piqued, you should make plans to rush out and try this brand new drink soon as it's only available for a limited time.
Her music never really drew me in, but a recent magazine profile piqued my interest, and a high budget Vegas production seemed like an ideal Gaga baptism.
It was watching the documentary Pucker Up, a dive into the strange world of the International Whistlers Convention (IWC), that first piqued Lewis's interest in professional whistling.
This is why the Suora piqued my interest, with its promise of a minimalist "frameless" design, which is basically the keyboard equivalent of a bezel-less smartphone.
During the 2013-2016 epidemic, concern and media attention piqued only after isolated cases of Ebola began to be reported in Western Europe and the United States.
If the episode piqued your interest and you don't know where to look for more, Kotaku is actually a great place to start, along with Eurogamer, gamesindustry.
Hwang Hye Mi, an editor at a publishing company in Seoul, said that she has noticed more information about the Olympics recently, which has piqued her interest.
Their dramatic rescue has piqued the interest of as many as 12 film production companies, including two foreign and four Thai firms, the government said on Wednesday.
He says today's most powerful computers can only go so far, and Aliro piqued his interest with its approach to helping developers sign on with the technology.
The S8's edge-to-edge OLED "infinity" screen has piqued the interest of many, and that includes Bob O'Donnell, founder and chief analyst at Technalysis research.
I was beginning to wonder what I was going to do with my life, and my interest was piqued as I was secretly thinking about drama school.
Why it matters: Time's selectively comes as the publisher's digital revenues are soaring, thanks to native and programmatic digital advertising growth, which has likely piqued investor interest.
My curiosity piqued, I waded through a sea of heavily scented mugwort and skin-shredding roses to discover that the ball was actually a large puffball mushroom.
Democrats are piqued, but they must not let Mr. Trump's incoherence and prejudice keep them from signing on to a deal — even one that includes wall funding.
But sitcom "The Good Place" somehow immediately piqued my interest — with its unnaturally cheery lighting and intriguing premise, it practically screams a promise of a good time.
Dorrie Jacobson, an 203-year-old former Playboy bunny, piqued interest last year when she began modeling lacy black lingerie on her Senior Style Bible Instagram account.
My curiosity was piqued, and I spent my junior year of college in India, first through the Antioch Buddhist Studies program, and then traveling on my own.
Despite the sector's growing pains, online lending services have piqued the interest of incumbent banks through their better use of automation to make lending cheaper and faster.
After an opening of glistening harmonics and pizzicato that's like piqued curiosity, Ms. Shaw's music takes off to discover surprising melodic turns with irresistible joy and wonder.
It piqued the interest of the fashion press initially because it wasn't made by a recognizable brand even though it was being worn by very fashionable women.
Markowitz's nomination, however, piqued the interest of some major brands like Zillow and Coca-Cola, which soon commissioned him to create content for their brand's Snapchat accounts.
What piqued the scholar's interest was the image of Hamilton drawn for a 21884-cent postage stamp that the United States Post Office Department issued in 103.
Tavia Nyong'o, a professor of theater and American studies at Yale University, was also in attendance at the conference and admitted the idea had piqued his interest.
He was confrontational, combative, piqued by his perceived mistreatment in the press, and insistent that he had the right to keep running his business the way he wanted.
If your interest is piqued, here are three ways to do it: One of the most painless ways to earn money on Amazon is by becoming an affiliate.
Her curiosity was piqued, so she and her friend headed to the Beijing branch and were adding their own cheese tea photos to the online picture ocean. Why?
What really kind of got my attention and piqued my interest was the fact that culturally 'Ila is American but in terms of nationality and ethnicity, he's not.
In the past, the most prominent artists have mostly been Western, white, male and straight, but in recent years the curiosity of open-minded listeners has been piqued.
Considering Verboten's spectacular fall from grace, it's safe to say the entire New York nightlife community's interest was thoroughly piqued on what would happen to the space next.
Each episode delves into something that has piqued Van Ness' interest whether it be one of his Queer Eye castmates or whether he should be afraid of snakes.
B. It's not as if it's so earth-shattering to see manual labor in Chinese factories, but the detail that piqued my curiosity here are Disney plush toys.
My interest was piqued: Self-defence tends to be dominated by burly dudes—meaning that traditional self-defence classes, however well-intentioned, may be triggering for sexual abusers.
"There's definitely a moment when you see, say, a mysterious silhouette on the distant horizon, where it could be anything and you find your curiosity piqued," says Kythreotis.
" When we asked Loh what excited her most in the future of digital wealth management and investing, she said what piqued her interest was "a little more subtle.
But it was when he went down the sock aisle, overflowing with basic, basic brown, black, white and gray socks in boring plastic bags, that his inspiration piqued.
Bryan was planning a trip to Los Angeles from his native England when he fired off two tweets that apparently piqued the attention of United States Homeland Security.
A lengthy conversation with Jack Ma, founder of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, piqued his interest, Mr. Schwarzman recalled, and he kept talking to experts and reading.
Americans might be drinking less, in general, perhaps due to piqued interest in cannabis, or trends in health and wellness, such as the rise of sober-curious culture.
Providing industry players with greater access to people's data, particularly their health data, has also piqued critics who have argued companies should be held to stricter privacy standards.
When April Ryan of American Urban Radio Networks asked whether he would meet with the Congressional Black Caucus to discuss his urban agenda, Mr. Trump again seemed piqued.
With zip lines, water slides, exotic wildlife, not to mention countless bars dotted over the island and 130 gorgeous staff, Necker well and truly piqued my island envy.
Scaramucci is pouring gasoline on the fire of his feud with Priebus, which has piqued speculation that the brash former hedge fund manager is gunning for his job.
If your curiosity is piqued by the imagery in the solved quotation, as mine was, you must take a look at these deer stones, as they are called.
New technologies like cellular agriculture (lab-grown meat) and cellular aquaculture (lab-grown seafood) as well as online food delivery, seed treatment and science have all piqued investor interest.
He only needs to make a few positive points about a movie that isn't widely accepted in fandom, and he'll have piqued their curiosity and acquitted himself reasonably well.
Even if you don't know a damn thing about La La Land save for the fact that it stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, your interest should be piqued.
For one of rock's great autodidacts, the physical act of adventuring mirrors a mind constantly on the move, piqued by the new, the different, the unexpected and the fun.
The idea of limiting the mess and hassle of getting my makeup off and cleansing my skin after a long day of drudging around New York piqued my interest.
Of course, we're not alone in wondering that: It's also piqued the curiosity of Pinterest users, generating a frenzy of searches beyond the usual decor, wedding, and hair inspiration.
What's piqued the scientists about the skull unearthed this week is it's not big enough to qualify as a Columbian mammoth and not small enough to be a pygmy.
Actor and activist Shailene Woodley piqued more mainstream interest in the land dispute when she livestreamed a peaceful protest earlier this month and ended up filming her own arrest.
Like most other people who've accidentally come into contact with Garson's magnum opus, I clicked on the album having had my curiosity piqued by the title and album cover.
CNN's article about the Liberian doctor nevertheless piqued the interest of Stephen McCarthy, a graduate student in the department of laboratory medicine and pathobiology at the University of Toronto.
You can wander in and out of the movies at will, finding something to laugh at and then going and doing something else until your attention is piqued again.
Concerns about China's handling of its economy and financial sector were piqued last summer when authorities intervened in equity markets and devalued the currency amid a stock market rout.
His murals shout in a kind of proto-post-colonial language that piqued the interest of American artists, but clashed with the bourgeois ethos of mid-twentieth century colleges.
And the fact that the company has started focusing on producing more of its parts, such as its own MicroLED screens, has piqued the interest of designers and investors.
Our desire to travel a little further backward, to see why these people are doing what they're doing, is both piqued and stymied by the film's relentless forward motion.
So when we caught wind of the buzz around the latest vintage spotted on the chain's shelves, our interest was piqued: Behold, a $10 bottle of blood orange rosé.
But it has piqued the interest of the tech industry, which is notoriously aggressive and deep-pocketed and could play a significant role in the program as it grows.
His role in the NSA leaks piqued Jarre's interested in Snowden, and he said the track's title "Exit" is a direct reference to his decision to expose the agency.
Unilever later dropped the lawsuit, but not before it piqued the interest of Ryan Shapiro, a PhD candidate and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) expert at MIT and Harvard.
My interest piqued, I hit play and… Well, you know what, you should load it up too, and then we can have a little New Year's Eve listening party.
Pork butt, marinated in mojo piqued with bitter orange ("The way my dad did it," Mr. Estrada said), is roasted for a half-day until it obligingly falls apart.
He appears to have piqued investigators' interests with his work for a pro-Russian Ukrainian political party and other international dealings, people familiar with the probe told NBC News.
He then taught science at a Mobile high school, where a student piqued his interest in Catholicism; he was baptized into the church with the name Joseph that year.
The personnel visited to see if the air base there could support US military transport planes, which has piqued Russian concerns about NATO activity around Norway and in the Arctic.
But in early December, a dear friend piqued my interest when she told me about a four-night, five-day Lindblad Expeditions/NatGeo/Exhale journey in the Sea of Cortez.
If I'm honest, the thing that most piqued my interest in reading the collection was the presence of the word "new" into the title's subhead ("Poems for a New Feminism").
So when she read in the newspaper about a new digi­tal eldercare service called CareCoach a few weeks after broaching the subject of the nursing home, it piqued her interest.
So my interest was piqued when I found out about a new study which claims the language used to speak to men and women about money is very different indeed.
Being a challenging task, it piqued the interest of the scientist inside me and I eventually learned to create data science and machine learning methods to help solve these problems.
Petrow writes that his accuser was piqued by an email from Petrow to security expert Bruce Schneier: "That's how I know you're interested in the Apple story," [the hacker] continued.
Katie Thokar, a rune reader who lives in New York, says it was the Lord of The Rings books that piqued her interest in the ancient form of rune magic.
Bottom line: "This piqued the interest of people who didn't really care about so-called big tech before," says a senior D.C. rep of a major West Coast tech company.
All those songs that briefly piqued your interest at the club or in a Forever 21 still live in your Shazam account, and you can bring them home to Spotify.
What piqued my interest, though, was that in media interviews and on the McAfee Crypto Team website, one of my articles is used to illustrate the "effect" of his tweets.
But Cruz's relentless jibes at his colleagues' conservative bona fides has piqued them more because it undermines their standing with the party's base and could motivate potential conservative primary challengers.
While the recognizable star power is impressive (and piqued my interest), after watching the first episode, it's not the main reason that I like the show as much I do.
Clinton has said often that she can handle the personal insults from him, but that what gets her piqued are attacks on groups that Mr. Trump has appeared to bully.
Area 51 has long piqued the curiosity of alien enthusiasts, many of whom believe that the government is hiding alien life forms, or information about them, at the secretive site.
Graham told CNN his interest was piqued by a vague answer on the subject given by former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who testified alongside Yates at Monday's hearing.
Its attention was piqued by a report of a 1794 grave robbery by a doctor, Frank Chambers; it was printed in the late 19th century in a thinly circulated magazine.
True&Co, a brand I found on Facebook, piqued my interest with a wireless bra that was touted as the only one that actually offered support to larger cup sizes.
The job application that piqued Dana Stubblefield's attention is bizarre to say the least -- with the woman strangely touting her penchant for "zumba" ... to get a job as a BABYSITTER.
Getting here has been a journey of months as well as miles, one that began when my curiosity was piqued at a butchery workshop at East London restaurant Merchant's Tavern.
It often places those showrooms in clusters, to appeal to shoppers whose interest may be piqued by driving past one, but who may not be quite ready to buy drapes.
His "Sermon on Indulgences and Grace" was the first in a series of passionate pamphlets that first piqued the interest of a wide public, and then formed a popular movement.
In the course of ten years, Bolton wrote at least six hundred newspaper articles, and the uncompromising beliefs that had piqued colleagues in government found a willing audience outside it.
Ms. Lewis's interest in Jefferson was piqued in graduate school by reading Fawn Brodie's 1974 best-selling book, "Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate Biography," which delved into his relationship with Hemings.
But the impending sale of Monroe's personal prayer book — or siddur, as it's called in Hebrew — has piqued interest in the role religion played in the star's cinematic life story.
I find myself more piqued at the phrasing of it, the offering up of women as enumerated objects of discussion, their art coming only in the subtitle, like an afterthought.
These findings on daily rhythmicity in microbiota have really piqued my interest because disruption of our circadian rhythmicity by electric light at night has been my research passion for several decades.
Once I'd pieced together BEERGARITA, a term I'd never seen, I figured this had to be a Homer Simpsonism, but after reading some enthusiastic reviews my interest is (a little) piqued.
The company ventured into automotive last year with a smart rear-view mirror that integrates messaging app WeChat, navigation and more, and it seems like that product piqued VW's interest suitably.
Then my interest was really piqued when I read that Mandy Moore used Lord Jones' CBD-oil lotion on her feet to prevent heel pain at the Golden Globes in January.
U.S. Treasury bonds and notes rose across the yield curve on Wednesday, as worrying news out of North Korea piqued geopolitical concerns and spurred demand for so-called "safe haven" assets.
The bill has piqued the interest of many since it seeks to address the increase in the frequency and magnitude of breaches and the public's growing frustration with low prosecution rates.
That piqued the interest of Republicans in both chambers and the White House, officials said, who were intrigued about what it could signal as a shift or outline for future deal.
The GOP senator told CNN's Manu Raju that his interest was piqued by an answer that former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper gave during a Monday hearing in the Senate.
He grew up in Sacramento and began paying attention to art as a child, his interest piqued by a friend of his father's who used to make whimsical drawings for him.
Their interest was further piqued when Mr. Cohen pleaded guilty in federal court last year to misleading congressional investigators about the extent of the negotiations and their overlap with the campaign.
And she is working with the Millennial Money blogger Grant Sabatier (the millionaire whose story originally piqued my interest in the book) to create an online community for "Your Money" devotees.
Johnson, who helped his wife renovate his home's deck last summer, said the experience piqued his interest in the stock of Trex, the company that made the decking material he used.
But Cohen's hearing before the House Judiciary Committee last week piqued congressional Democrats' interest in hearing from Weisselberg, as Cohen said the Trump Organization official had insight into Trump's tax filings.
But Ms. Voynow, her medical inquisitiveness piqued and her distaste for anesthesia pronounced, had chosen to remain awake throughout, her forearm rendered numb with only an injection of a local anesthetic.
When I visit on a recent Wednesday afternoon, some of Uy's doughnuts are are already sold out, including one with a matcha glaze that had piqued my interest in the first place.
Regula, an admirer of Eleanor Roosevelt, accompanied her husband to Washington, where her fascination with first ladies was further piqued, she searched in vain for a definitive bibliography of presidential spouses. Mrs.
It's Not About Creating Another Silicon Valley But Preventing Another Motor City For a young Youssri Helmy, it was a Tandy Radio Shack (TRS) 80 that first piqued his curiosity in technology.
Fan excitement was piqued, too, when Smith appeared alongside his Fresh Prince cast mates, but Smith assured Norton that the reunion was for a charitable luncheon that the actors do every year.
That was my attitude until I saw something on Facebook that piqued my interest: CrossFit FiDi was looking for women to sign up for a six-week challenge dedicated to becoming stronger.
They are far from the only places worth recommending (I'm partial to South Australia's remote coastline) but they were clearly places that piqued the interest of our Travel editors in New York.
It was this common thread of religion, Biblical archaeology, and an genealogy that in part piqued the interest of those back home who wished to see antecedents of Christianity in the region.
But my interest in that other extreme was recently piqued by the exhibition "Visitors to Versailles," which is on view through July 29 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Iran has piqued financial interest throughout the world for its massive energy reserves, but the country actually has a host of other opportunities in less obvious areas, according to one global investor.
But word of mouth helped the company grow — and eventually drew investors like Mr. Gurley, whose interest was piqued by the number of assistants at his firm who swore by the service.
And their interest is being piqued: Even among students who never used e-cigarettes, 39 percent said they were curious about using e-cigarettes and 37 percent were curious about traditional cigarettes.
My interest in the period was first piqued by a professor at the University of Toronto, William McAllister Johnson, who introduced me to the glory of Enlightenment-era journalism, printing, and publishing.
Having piqued your interest, Maddow now broadens her narrative and explains why this anecdote is an apt illustration of the book's larger point — the centrality and influence of the oil and gas industry.
Peter Jones' interest soon piqued after the telco entrepreneur figured out that M214 had already signed up Global, the operator of a number of the U.K.'s leading radio stations, as a customer.
For Sabrina's narrative sake, there were thankfully two births in part 1 finale "The Witching Hour" that likely piqued these demons' interest: those of baby Judas (yet another biblical reference) and baby Leticia.
In the same way a viral video can get tens of millions of views even though it's largely disliked, controversial music can get ahead in the charts because it has piqued people's interest.
The iOS game, which launched its 1.0 version yesterday initially piqued my attention through its perhaps-not-quite fair use of Grand Theft Auto V screenshots as the app icon and description photos.
The problem, now known as the Hadwiger-Nelson problem or the problem of finding the chromatic number of the plane, has piqued the interest of many mathematicians, including the famously prolific Paul Erdős.
"I think that has piqued a lot of people's interest," Toby McGrath, a political strategist in Maine who ran both of Barack Obama's presidential campaigns in the state, said of the crowdfunding efforts.
His plans to partially privatize some state enterprises have piqued the interest of foreign multinationals hoping to profit from market of 100 million people, and should breathe life into the debt-laden economy.
Although it was Nixon's disintegration that piqued Dr. Greenstein's interest in presidential psychology, it was the archives of Eisenhower and other presidents that gave him the tools to plumb the meaning of leadership.
They first piqued our interest back in September when they dropped their debut song "Loveless"—a glacially gorgeous cut of epic indie with a bunch of opening bars that'll will make you quiver.
The lack of a reaction from Russia to the sanctions piqued the interest of the FBI, who it turns out were already investigating Flynn's links to the Russian government, according to the report.
The emergence of depression treatment with the anesthetic and club drug ketamine and related compounds, which cause out-of-body sensations, also has piqued interest in mind-altering agents as aids to therapy.
Her personal aesthetic is influenced by sportswear and sneaker culture, and it piqued the interest of Oliver El Khatib, the co-founder of October's Very Own and executive producer for Drake, the rapper.
It also makes sense for a discovery platform like Instagram to integrate action buttons, so users can translate their piqued interest in a hair stylist's skills or tattoo artist's work into becoming IRL customers.
Time crystals, systems of atoms that maintain a periodic ticking behavior in the presence of an added electromagnetic pulse, have now piqued the interest of one well-funded government agency: the Department of Defense.
But you're in luck if your interest in piqued after getting just a taste of Alita's powers in Alita: Battle Angel, because there's a whole lot more going on in author Kishiro's source material.
Europe was in the midst of a recession, from which it has been slow to recover, and the United States was entering a piqued quagmire over immigration, from which it has yet to emerge.
A naval officer turned investment banker turned academic turned energy consultant turned foreign-policy adviser, he first piqued the FBI's interest in 2013, when an American-based Russian intelligence officer tried to recruit him.
According to the show notes, during her research in the Dior archives, Maria Grazia Chiuri's interest was piqued by a series of photographs of French-American sculptor, painter, and filmmaker, Niki de Saint Phalle.
Screen parts, chips, and various partly assembled gizmos did not give us hope we'd see anything close to a finished product here, but a curvy LCD display, shaped like a bracelet, piqued our interest.
Huzaifa's admissions to Times reporter Rukmini Callimachi piqued the interest of authorities and drew the ire of the Conservative Party of Canada—the official opposition—accusing the governing Liberals of being soft on terrorism.
"We started to get a little bit of in-bound flow from family offices, which of course piqued my interest because it's sort of a new category of clients," she said in an interview.
It took only a few online videos of Jim demonstrating the yield of his buckets by mixing up entire bathtubs of gruel before my curiosity was piqued enough to order some to try myself.
His first mixtape featured his honeyed R&B hooks over songs by Coldplay and MGMT; that piqued the interest of the press, and gave him an easily digestible hook: R&B + alt-rock = novelty.
You know what you want when you see it, and are more prone than most to experiencing love at first sight...but your curiosity must be piqued to keep your attention and sustain passion!
It wasn't until fashion piqued her interest a couple years into her studies that she made the decision to overhaul her entire career trajectory and transfer to Parsons School of Design in New York.
So please indulge us by allowing us to ruminate on some of the questions you might've been too embarrassed to ask, or that have piqued your curiosity about one of TV's most fascinating experiments.
In fact, it is the lack of closure on this issue—largely due to the absence of actual, trustworthy analysis on the FCC's part—that has piqued the interest of reporters at so many outlets.
It could be a $146 billion sector in less than a decade, but for investors whose interest has been piqued by cannabis stocks, there is still no reason to rush into the publicly traded companies.
Dr Molnar's interest was piqued at a conference in 2013, when Karen Kinemuchi, another astronomer, presented some puzzling findings on a particular star seen by Kepler, a space telescope designed chiefly to hunt for exoplanets.
This is all what Facebook was hoping to do with Facebook Watch, but that original video hub was filled with third-rate reality shows and documentaries that haven't piqued the interest of the younger crowd.
So far the results have at least piqued the interest of a handful of dealerships, Rohrssen said, "It's worse now because [the customer] spent time doing an online purchase but nothing is synchronized," he said.
But recently, renewed interest in them — both as a design object and a functional vessel for everything from joint remnants to smudge sticks — has piqued among many in the spheres of art, craft, and design.
If this ad has piqued your interest, be sure to check our review of the set-top box: it may not be "the future of TV," as Apple claims, but it is a nice streamer.
She first piqued fan interest back in November with a message on her Facebook page about getting back in the studio and working on a new album — but then didn't say another word about it.
Demos conducted by James Cameron first piqued his interest If the pitch sounds familiar, that's because Peter Jackson said the same thing about his use of high-frame rate filmmaking in 2012 with The Hobbit.
Over the years I caught snippets of stuff, obviously, but nothing really piqued my interest, likely because it wasn't geared towards women and frankly I didn't care enough to go searching for female-friendly alternatives.
But this summer's Garden Tea, which featured pink and purple cocktails and a giant raspberry Ladurée macaron, piqued the interest of a clientele that was about one-third millennial, estimates the general manager, Heiko Kuenstle.
Its all-female cheering squad and the singing performances piqued the interest of Olympic fans worldwide, though the athletes, mostly young and inexperienced in international events, won no medals and struggled just to keep up.
A few that piqued our interest: • A recent report in Science magazine said researchers found that the biggest refineries around Los Angeles are pumping out vastly larger quantities of pollution than is being officially reported.
Peter Voulkos, the Abstract Expressionist ceramicist, piqued Leigh's interest in sculpture in the late 1950s, when Voulkos taught summers at Columbia University Teacher's College, which Leigh attended on the G.I. Bill following his Army service.
Now experts fear ARSA, whose fighters are estimated to number in the hundreds, has piqued interest from international terror groups and given Myanmar's forces an open invitation to unleash their full wrath on the Rohingya.
The federal court case against Awan had been hit with repeated delays over the last six months -- a situation fueled by allegations in the media that, according to his attorney, have piqued the curiosity of prosecutors.
As good millennials, the avocado and the non-dairy classification on the ice cream pints' labels immediately piqued our interest, so we reached out to one of Cado's co-founders Meghan Dowd to find out more.
Which is why our interest is always piqued when a celebrity makeup artist admits that he or she uses a drugstore product on a celeb client — especially when that client isn't getting paid for the marketing.
The NRA was particularly piqued in November 2017 when the justices declined to entertain a challenge to Maryland's ban on large-capacity magazines and semi-automatic weapons, placing AR-15s outside the ambit of constitutional protection.
Mark Benioff's "1%" pledge of equity, time and product to good causes has piqued the interest of many, but could appear to some as being more complicated than it needs to be, especially for serial entrepreneurs.
Dressed in simple but stylishly fitted earth tones on the afternoon we met, he was quiet and subdued until the moments his interest was piqued, at which point he would almost literally light up with excitement.
Upon publishing them, Nick piqued the interest of collectors, who contacted him to inquire about the originals—overtures he says he turned down, explaining that he wasn't ready to be parted from those letters quite yet.
Dating material; the only thing that really piqued my interest was a link on his personal Twitter page to something called Consumers Book, an online philosophy text that he'd ostensibly written and had copyrighted in 2017.
The 2008 financial crisis and a crackdown on tax havens that diluted banking secrecy in Austria, Luxembourg and Switzerland piqued interest in relatively confidential freeports, suited to store physical assets coveted at times of market volatility.
The truth behind the Trump bump: Times CEO Mark told investors on their quarterly earnings call that the increase was largely due to piqued interest in coverage of Trump after the election, including from international subscribers.
So international interest was piqued when the Marselisborg Wastewater Treatment Plant in Aarhus, Denmark's second largest city, generated nearly 2000 percent more energy than it needed in 21 following a 3 million euro ($3.2 million) upgrade.
But make no mistake: It's good news for Mr. Rosendale, whose campaign — once considered a serious long shot — has piqued top-level Republican interest in recent weeks in a state Mr. Trump carried by 20 points.
Its placid nature piqued Wall Street's interest, leading to the rise of leveraged trading vehicles like the XIV, the VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short-Term exchange-traded note, as ways to short the low-volatility layout.
When Garnette Cadogan describes the pleasures of being a walker in the city, or Alexandra T. Vazquez offers an ode to the D.J. Alex Sensation, you may feel not only piqued, intrigued and angered but moved.
Dylan Howard, the top editor at that tabloid, said the paper began looking into rumors that Mr. Sheen was ill in the fall of 2013 and its curiosity was piqued when Mr. Jasper's blog posts came down.
While plenty of clinics and researchers have been able to access genetic data in cancer research and other diseases, consumer interest in genetic research has also piqued thanks to tests from startups such as 23andMe and AncestryDNA.
Raised in San Diego by her Southern grandparents, she grew up on a steady diet of Cajun food that piqued the curiosity of her schoolmates, who had never seen gumbo, okra, and grits, let alone tried them.
I remember watching the film for the first time – piqued by an Empire magazine subscription, an unhealthy urge for self-improvement, and enabled by inhabiting that interregnum between childhood and full-on wank-a-minute early adolescence.
Egged on by President Richard Nixon, during his visit to France in the 1960s, to challenge de Gaulle's ideas about Germany, Kissinger piqued the haughty general with the question how he would prevent Germany from dominating Europe.
Not that this comes as a surprise: Apparently, when you're catapulted into the spotlight like Delevingne was back in 2012, a piqued public interest (and, unfortunately just as often, criticism) of your life comes with the territory.
The initiator of games that evolve into orgies is George (Marilyn Lima), who is piqued when the group's callous ringleader, Alex (Finnegan Oldfield), treats her with indifference after they hook up, and decides to stir things up.
Seated by a hole 173 feet deep and partly covered with corrugated iron — remnants of a recent failed dig — Mr. Díaz, a former electronics dealer, recalled an audacious excavation he led in 2013 that piqued curiosity nationwide.
Kraviz also breaks down some of the actual tracks—ranging from ghetto house to psychedelic Ricardo Villalobos productions—that led to specific moments of style fluctuation and probably piqued the aggravation of certain members of the audience.
The Excelsior program piqued her interest — "Who doesn't want tuition-free education in New York City?" she said — but she was turned off by the residency requirements, among other factors, and decided to continue her online studies.
A majority of the Democratic Caucus has not publicly backed a candidate, and several say Bloomberg's centrist views — and his promise to use his personal fortune to spend unprecedented sums in battleground states — have piqued their interest.
Instead, what piqued media interest was that both executives – Sébastien Proto of SocGen and Marguerite Bérard-Andrieu at BNP – were classmates of President Emmanuel Macron at École nationale d'administration (ENA), the finishing school for France's managerial class.
As for his personal interest in blockchain and the digital currencies that it's spawned, Brin admitted he doesn't know "a whole lot about cryptocurrency," but an amateur mining rig set-up with his son piqued his interest.
DeVos, a mother of four, said the issue of campus sexual assault "is really piqued on this issue," but added that she would work to get read in on the issue once she gets to the Education Department.
Plus he's tortured and sad and you know, we've all seen Donnie Darko… Nick's general grossness has been cause for concern for a lot of Bachelor fans; and folks, it has also piqued the interest of non-fans.
Why we love it: There are a lot of podcasts inspired by pseudo-urban legends, many of which are on this list, but one of the newest additions to the subgenre that's piqued my interest is Video Palace.
After our collective curiosity was piqued by the real-life crime stories featured in HBO's The Jinx, Serial and Netflix's Making a Murderer, fans of the crime story genre, whether fact or fiction-based, need a new fix.
According to Peter W. Singer, a senior fellow at the non-partisan think tank New America, it was the military's successful use of robots to disarm explosives in Iraq and Afghanistan that piqued the interest of law enforcement.
I'm very picky when it comes to speed/trad heavy metal, but Black Viper's over-the-top album cover piqued my interest when I chanced upon them on Bandcamp, and I'm delighted that I ended up pressing play.
The White House's confirmation of the president's involvement piqued the interest of investigators, including Senator Mark R. Warner of Virginia, the senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is looking at Russia's interference in last year's election.
Though it&aposs getting harder and harder for specific headphones to stand out in this increasingly crowded market, a few models have successfully piqued our interest, offering some potentially tough competition for Apple&aposs ever-popular AirPods lineup.
"Investor interest is always piqued when you have a large and growing market with enthusiast consumers that have rapidly changing needs and expectations," says Eurie Kim, a partner at Forerunner Ventures, which has invested in several pet startups.
Panay paid a visit to the MashTalk studio this week, and we took the opportunity to ask him about a few Surface facts that piqued our curiosity — and one or two that were irking us —about the Surface line.
They've even piqued the curiosity of huge retail giants like H&M, which wants to learn how to better predict what it will sell so that it doesn't end up sitting on $4.3 billion worth of unsold clothes again.
The genre's buzz as the hot new sound in pop piqued interest in its biggest star, while Avicii's ability to craft pop in a way that made sense to anyone who listened helped bring more fans into the fold.
But the melting of Arctic ice has piqued the interests of polar nations like the United States, Canada and Russia by opening new shipping routes and expanding access to a region believed to be rich in petroleum and minerals.
Tokyo will also be piqued to see that the Philippines, one of Asia's most forceful opponents to China's territorial claims, agreed to join the 57 countries as a founding member of the Beijing-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
This morning, Net-a-Porter's retail fashion director, Lisa Aiken, walked a roomful of editors through a (very!) thorough roster of fall 2017 trends that piqued the e-comm's interest — and that they're betting big on for next season.
Chyna's attorney, Walter Mosley, tells us the filing was prompted by her getting multiple film, TV and endorsement offers that have piqued her interest -- and it's his job to make sure her name, likeness and intellectual properties are protected.
Add to that the fact that voice chat and game matching take place over a smartphone app, and that the monthly free NES game given to subscribers is deleted at the end of the month — players are understandably piqued.
But I boarded the No. 7 train with wary curiosity, piqued by the novelty, in these days of mutually entangled art and politics, of a show that centers on hard historical fact rather than on curatorial themes or theories.
" Still, Professor Pacey conceded in a recent interview that the new paper piqued his interest and represented "a step forward in the clarity of the data, which might ultimately allow us to define better studies to examine this issue.
Beersheba's cybersecurity hub has also piqued the interest of Rudy Giuliani, the former Mayor of New York City who vistied the hub earlier this month to inspect the burgeoning cyber security hub and to talk to students, researchers and startup entrepreneurs.
Our interest piqued, we talked earlier today with Airbus Ventures CEO Tim Dombrowski —  who earlier worked as a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and as a director of global business development at Hewlett-Packard — to learn more about what he's up to.
Update, July 22, 2016: Earlier this year, Girlfriend Collective piqued our interest with its almost-too-good-to-be-true promise of leggings that are ethically made, sustainably sourced, and, most importantly, free of charge (except for the cost of shipping).
Some lawmakers from von der Leyen's own center-right party appear to have deserted her at the last minute, perhaps piqued by her promises of a greener and more equitable Europe that were designed to win over wavering socialists and liberals.
But beyond the carefully choreographed moves and praise for each other's leadership, there remained differences: Trump seemed piqued at his country's trade deficit with India, and Modi would have remained concerned about a growing anti-immigrant mood under the Trump administration.
While it's possible that the Duffers were inspired by Kessler's idea, it's also possible that he or someone else piqued their interest in the Montauk conspiracy and that it became one of the many cultural references amalgamated in Stranger Things.
The internet lets everyone feel like Jake Gyllenhaal's character in Zodiac — amateur criminologists who get their hands on the right documents, have their brains piqued by the right signs from the universe, and put together the pieces with their superior intellect.
When the first trailer for Oxenfree was released last year at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, it piqued the interest of none other than Robert Kirkman, who reached out to Murray about potentially working with the game's developers.
But Jackson's name never came up when Lee discussed his process in a post-screening panel; instead, he said it was a series of demos conducted by James Cameron several years ago that first piqued his interest in the format.
Tesco's move on Booker piqued the interest of Britain's other supermarket giants in the convenience store sector, which is forecast to grow 17.7 percent to 47.1 billion pounds in the five years to 2022, according to industry research group IGD.
The platform to help individuals get the highest value out of their belongings (inspired by his own father, who possessed many knicknacks and collectibles but no efficient way to resell) piqued Moore's interest in an entirely different side of retail.
But when his colleague Gil Holder suggested that Planet nine's heat signature might be detectable with the instruments used to study the cosmic microwave background (CMB)—the ubiquitous energy signature left over from the Big Bang—Cowan's interest was piqued.
That said, one at-home device recently piqued my interest, primarily because it claims to diminish signs of aging quickly and painlessly — two things I can totally get behind (did I mention my pain threshold hasn't caught up with my age?).
And that kind of pitch has piqued a lot of funding interest — proptech, a broad term that includes tech around brokerages, tenant experience, real estate data, and more, has seen over $24 billion in VC investment through the third quarter.
Each comes in a box with kabuli, carrots and raisins given a gloss in a pan with cardamom and sugar, and a bracing fistful of raw red onions and tomatoes, piqued by lime, with a flutter of dried mint and cilantro.
Mr. Wardle's curiosity was piqued by recent news that Russian spies had used Kaspersky antivirus products to siphon classified documents off the home computer of an N.S.A. developer, and may have played a critical role in broader Russian intelligence gathering.
The promise that many of the artists would be in attendance at the opening reception, as well as the curator's transatlantic trip to see love in the ruins; sex over 21984 by my friend, artist Susan Silas, had piqued my curiosity.
Hundreds of other players who protested two weeks ago, apparently more piqued at a president telling them what to do than the underlying causes the kneeling is supposed to highlight, are now back in line and standing for the anthem.
The event has been providing intercontinental thrills for more than 90 years, and though the French who do find their curiosity piqued won't get to watch a Frenchman in action, they will get to watch someone quite likely more familiar.
Baskin's flamboyant personal style and shadowy personal past piqued the interest of Tiger King fans, so much so that some are petitioning for her to step into the spotlight as the next lead of ABC's dating reality series The Bachelorette.
Like Mr. Trump, Roosevelt was piqued by opposition from members of his own party and set out to replace them with more ideologically aligned candidates who would support his agenda — in his case, liberals who would take out Southern conservatives.
The cavalcade of payroll gains continued for the 108th month in September, pushing down the jobless rate to a half-century low and countering anxieties that had been piqued by slowing global growth, declining factory orders and a jittery stock market.
More long hots are broken down into a sambal for dendeng balado, flank steak sliced thinly and piqued with lime before a quick fry; and for duck, boiled to render the fat and then pan-fried so the skin crackles.
It piqued her interest in digital "gold" that isn't controlled by a central bank, leading her from Bitcoin meet-ups in Japan, the first country to officially recognize cryptocurrencies, to data centers in Iceland, where they're mined on an industrial scale.
The news piqued the interest of Seven & i, which already runs the biggest chain of convenience stores in the United States, as well as a portfolio of over 24,23 gas stations and corner stores through a 2000 deal with Sunoco.
As someone who Helman describes as a naturally curious person, particularly when it comes to film and technology, Scorsese was quick to have his interests piqued as Helman began describing technologies he was developing that could make actors appear younger.
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump, in a series of tweets on Monday, claimed he would declare a "national emergency" over an issue that has frequently piqued his attention -- migrant caravans moving toward the United States through Central America and Mexico.
If the recent solar eclipse piqued your interest in stargazing, here's some good news: the wonders of the solar system are on display on nearly any given night, and most of these wonders do not come with a risk of permanent eye damage.
If RED piqued your interest with its vague promises of a holographic pocket digital cinema phone (what does that even mean?!), you'll be interested to hear that YouTuber Marques Brownlee (AKA MKBHD) has gotten his hands on a prototype and was favorably impressed.
PJ Morton Growing up in New Orleans, Louisiana with father Canadian-American gospel singer Bishop Paul S. Morton and mother Debra Brown Morton, a pastor of Greater St. Stephen Full Gospel Baptist Church, Morton's love for music was piqued at a young age.
But if your interest is piqued, here's a sampling of the "experiences" Uber is most stoked about creating: a five minute news update during the same-length drive, recommendations for activities near your destination, or a playlist matching the length of your trip.
Also, even though we filled our time, we added a bonus segment in between it all: Vlad Savov, a fan favorite of the show, stops by and quickly breaks down what is on his mind and what gadgets have piqued his interests.
"We've even been compared to China," complained Pasquale Tufano of Ristorante La Vigna, piqued that the town's half-dozen pizzerias had been singled out and equated with a country whose capital, Beijing, announced its first-ever toxic smog red alert last month.
Local executives, who requested anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the project, say China Energy's interest was piqued by the waterfront location and neighboring logistics hubs that would allow the company to easily export what it produced back to Beijing.
For now, Mayor Pete seems to have piqued Winfrey's interest: she's reading his book, Shortest Way, has discussed him with Hollywood director Steven Spielberg and believes his name — which she jokes and says "Buttabeep, Buttaboop" — could ultimately help him in the race.
But soaring prices of digital coins has piqued investor interest, and banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Morgan Stanley have been exploring how to clear trades, while derivatives exchanges CBOE Global Markets Inc and CME Group Inc have launched bitcoin futures.
Thanks to her regular updates on Pottermore, author J.K. Rowling is giving fans of the Harry Potter series plenty to keep their interest piqued, but her latest announcement shows that Harry Potter himself should have had some Roman numerals after his name.
Cruz, who is ruling out a third-party run, piqued journalists' interest when he raised the possibility on his friend Glenn Beck's radio show that he could restart his presidential campaign if voters give him a surprise victory in today's Nebraska primary.
But Gym added that the Monarchs' tour of the South and the 2013 movie about Robinson's life, titled "42," further piqued her interest and the City Council's in remembering Robinson and owning up to the Phillies' contribution to the hostility he initially encountered.
His children only became interested in what their dad does after Forged in Fire began to air, he tells me; indeed, my conversations with the judges included dozens of anecdotes about people telling them that Forged in Fire piqued their interest in bladesmithing.
My curiosity about his condition after nearly a decade and a half was piqued, but my C in high school chemistry was not going to get me the answers I needed, at which point it seemed pertinent to turn to an expert.
Although acquisition of a movie studio and cable channels would be a departure for wireless carrier Verizon, its interest in Fox assets was likely piqued by rival AT&T's bid for HBO and CNN owner Time Warner, which is awaiting regulatory approval.
" But what underlies "This Bridge," Mr. Gutierrez said, is a consideration of something that has long piqued him: "the perception that artists of color are always doing content work" — dealing with identity politics — "and white artists are only doing form and line.
Meanwhile, emerging YouTubers whose niche is sustainable fashion or streamlined capsule wardrobes are an antidote to the endless hauls, and Connie and Mary admit that if eco-friendly brands and secondhand sellers partnered with their favorite influencers, their interest would be piqued.
There's nothing unusual about the I.R.S. cutting deals with taxpayers, but what has piqued interest this time is that it is focusing on a group — mostly business owners with a high net worth — who set up captive insurance companies solely to avoid taxes.
If you don't believe that emoji spells are really a thing, check these out: Spells to keep Donald Trump out of the White House are also very popular: If all these emoji spells have piqued your curiosity, you're welcome to give it a try yourself.
Although he's been fucking around and making tunes for well over a decade, he first piqued our ears collaborating with BANKS three years ago (you may recall we helped BANKS make her video for the Lil Silva-produced "This Is What It Feels Like").
Granted, that's not the kind of phrase you generally hear in the lead up to a Scorsese film (particularly one that unites him with both De Niro and Pacino for the first time), but the involvement of Industrial Light & Magic has piqued the internet's interest.
Investor interest in TME has been piqued by its vast user base and its profitability compared with other streaming services such as Spotify, which sent its shares tumbling earlier this month when it promised to continue sacrificing profit margins in order to invest heavily.
And I think the curiosity that's piqued by me being a unique element in the environment surrounding me, leads people to want to ask questions and be willing to stand by and discuss the issues and say, 'Why are you a Republican as a woman?
Concerns the FOMC may be more hawkish on a second rate hike were piqued on Wednesday when San Francisco Fed President John Williams and Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart said the central bank could still raise two or three times this year, according to Reuters.
Facebook's apparent use of the technology, and apps and services such as Prisma, are a novelty, said Leon Gatys, one of the University of Tübingen researchers who wrote the 2015 paper that piqued Google and Facebook's interest in style transfer in the first place.
The facts should speak for themselves: two Mercury Prize nominations (2010's Total Life Forever and 2013's Holy Fire), an Ivor Novello ("Spanish Sahara"), headline festival sets long after they first piqued interest in a post-Arctic Monkeys, pre-Insta-famous music scene.
Its interest has been piqued by plans for a wide-body jet to be developed jointly by China and Russia, who unveiled the first life-sized model of their CR929 at Airshow China in a bid to break open the duopoly of Airbus and Boeing.
The player, who came under fire for having his photograph taken with Turkey's authoritarian President Tayyip Erdogan in May, was especially piqued by criticism from German Football Association (DFB) head Reinhard Grindel, who he said blamed him for Germany crashing out of this year's tournament.
There was, after all, an Urban Outfitters just a short drive from her home, but jewelry from local artisans and a robust offering of beauty products piqued her interest, not to mention some fun sportswear pieces from collaborations the company did with FILA and Champion.
The Mate 8 isn't likely to appeal to many whose interest in Huawei was piqued by the Nexus 6P, and if you live in the US you won't even be able to buy one; the phone's Western release is limited to Europe so far.
Though my parents, whose first language is Russian, were unable to help me with my English, they encouraged me to read as much as possible, driving my siblings and me to the local library every week and allowing us to read whatever piqued our interest.
One of the more startling sets of the festival was also one of the less experimental, at least on its face: The vocalist Jazzmeia Horn — an exponent of Betty Carter's style of rugged, piqued hard-bop — drove her six band mates into a controlled frenzy.
It's easy to see how the hopes for this series might have progressed: "The Martian," the acclaimed 2015 film, piqued interest, then last month President Obama reiterated the goal of reaching the Red Planet, and now "Mars" could get the buzz into high gear, right?
James and House had each made a handful of recordings in the '30s and '40s, and then faded into obscurity until the folk revival of the early '60s piqued the interest of students and coffeehouse guitar pickers in the college towns of the North.
Still, my interest had been piqued: A Disney movie that also readily confronts themes of colonialism, climate crisis and toxic masculinity, however messily, was so far beyond the problematic classics I grew up with that I was curious to see how it might hold up.
Maureen Costello, the director of Teaching Tolerance, said the organization's interest in the election's effect on school-age kids was piqued by news reports about high school sporting events where chants of "Trump, Trump, Trump" and "Build a wall" were used against predominantly Latino teams.
In the past, I usually opted for Transition lenses to act as sunglasses and block UV rays, but blue-light blocking lenses recently piqued my interest because I spend far more time staring at computer screens at work than I do outside in the sun.
In a fantastic thread started by Colin Spacetwinks over on twitter, a question that short-circuited my nostalgia brain was posed: essentially, was there ever a game you saw in magazines or in a store as a kid that piqued your imagination and curiosity?
And while many things, like the announcement of three new iPhones with 2128-, 232-, and 303-inch screens and designs based on the iPhone X have long been rumored, there was another tidbit that piqued my interest: Once again, it seems, the iPad Mini is missing.
Midway through the game—which, with schools-off family time taking up most of my waking hours, became my go-to bedtime entertainment for late December, perfectly suited as it is to bite-size sessions—I found my curiosity piqued beyond the confines of the fictional hotel.
Laptops make sense for the Vive in particular because you may want to move its walk-around-the-room experience to different parts of your house, and they'll be an easier all-in-one purchase for any PC novice whose interest has been piqued by Oculus.
A recent teaser showing an Oppo phone with the front camera completely hidden under the display piqued our interest: Could the Chinese company be the first to launch a smartphone that's all screen on the front, without any clumsy solutions such as notches or pop-up cameras?
"What's going on in Turkey right now is really extraordinary and definitely something that should be watched closely," said Ms. Birkner, 22, a recent graduate of Bryn Mawr College whose interest in Turkey was piqued by a National Geographic cover of Turkish ruins when she was 17.
" Mr. Putin was similarly piqued when he sat for an interview afterward with Chris Wallace of Fox News, who jousted with the Russian president over hacking allegations and why many of his political opponents end up, as Mr. Wallace put it, "dead or close to it.
The pigtailed 8-year-old Addie (Alexa Skye Swinton) is already in the playroom when her older siblings trickle in: first the studious 10-year-old Kate (Sloane Wolfe), then the 9-year-old Chris (Roman Malenda), piqued that their mother hasn't left him a snack.
She piqued his interest with a profile that cited a love of spreadsheets and West Coast India pale ales, and he loved the fact that as a native New Yorker, she had been to North Korea but never to the top of the Empire State Building.
Angela Vargo -- a rep for the 4-year-old JSX -- which coined the Uber-esque tagline, "hop on jet service" -- noted that they are also witnessing piqued interest by customers angling for one of the 30 seats on their 23 Embraer 135 or 145 model planes.
Trump moved to Washington with her son, Barron, last June — she took her time establishing her own profile, with only a stilettoed misstep or two, literally: She piqued the public's interest by wearing high heels on a trip to Texas after it was hit by Hurricane Harvey.
With some major star power in Blanchett, Hiddleston, a rumored appearance by Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange, and the piqued interest of how Thor and the Guardians of the Galaxy are now connected, it looks like Ragnarok might prove that for Thor, the third time's the charm.
Concern over the wording was piqued last month after rosacea activist and beauty blogger Lex Gillies tried to run an ad on Instagram that featured her face and her skin as the focus, celebrating the difference rather than painting it as a flaw that needed to be fixed.
Furthermore, reports of links between Whitefish Energy CEO Andy Techmanski and Secretary Zinke — as well as Trump campaign donations from Joe Colonnetta, the head of one of Whitefish Energy's major funding sources — have piqued the interest of the House Committee on Natural Resources, which is looking into the deal.
" His Stranger Things character Sheriff Hopper has been a fan favorite since the hit Netflix series premiered, and interest in the star's physique piqued late last year when Merriam-Webster tweeted a clip of him dancing on the show as a visual definition of the term "dad bod.
It's a damaging cycle perpetuated, as Monica inadvertently points out, by Bollywood movies, where the male hero regularly sows his wild oats until his interest is suddenly piqued by a wholesome Indian girl back home who may or may not have carried a torch for him this whole time.
Gamble's preference to keep all aspects of his life and relationship with Jenner, 63, private was a hot topic during last season of Keeping Up, and the new season 17 trailer, which reveals an explosive scene between Scott Disick and Gamble, has only piqued fans' interest even more.
Pence said the agreement would boost U.S. investments, exports and jobs and also claimed it would help the administration as it negotiates with China on an agreement to end a trade war with Beijing that has unsettled global markets and piqued fears about the prospect of U.S. economic downturn.
While chemical attacks draw the world's attention, most of the more than 400,000 people who have died in the Syrian civil war have been killed with conventional weapons whose use has not piqued Mr. Trump's ire, leaving some observers skeptical that the strikes would change the war's course.
Beyond some relatively predictable inclusions like Giegling figure DJ Metatron's THUMP year-end favorite 2 The Sky, classic records from the likes of Floorplan and Jeff Mills, and a collection of new tracks that are simply very, very good, a few of the list's inclusions piqued our curiosity for other reasons.
The Rorschach tests that originally piqued his interest, rediscovered in their entirety only in the 1990s, proved as ambiguous as other methods of diagnosis; despite the conclusions of some early evaluators, when contrasted with a cross section of the population, the war criminals' tests turned out to reveal no significant ­abnormalities.
This week, in an exciting new addition to the list, we're incorporating favorites from our daily book critics, Michiko Kakutani, Dwight Garner and Jennifer Senior, all of whom bring their enthusiasms to bear on what they've read recently, and all of whom have piqued my interest in what they've been reading.
His work first piqued my interest with his ambitious video for Julian Casablancas's "11th Dimension," but his rep as a director to watch was cemented the following year with his video for "Bang Bang Bang" for Mark Ronson & The Business Intl, (it included musical cameos by MNDR and Q-Tip).
It piqued Amazon's interest—BDG is currently finalizing a "research-heavy campaign" for the company, set to feature "media, research, custom photography, and Instagram stories"—and has led to a rash of in-house engagements (BDG will be flying down to Texas later this year to present it to Toyota).
And Warren, who received 39 donations from the fundraisers during her first six months is the race, doubled that number during the most recent quarter, a reflection of quiet, but newly piqued, interest in her candidacy among high-profile donors despite her frequent repudiations of big businesses and traditional political fundraising.
She noted that visitors like her were "interested, and not here by force, not dragged along by their schools," though she suggested that the curiosity of a few young patrons might have been piqued by a music video by Beyoncé and Jay-Z that was shot in 2018 at the Louvre.
So whether it's slighted allies and partners, as in Europe and Asia, or piqued rivals and adversaries, as with China and Iran, most states have compelling incentives to downplay tensions, postpone confrontation and avoid conflict with the US.These incentives are further magnified by the uncertainty introduced by American democracy and electoral outcomes.
So if anal play is something that's piqued your interest but you never felt like the time was ripe to get started, consider the New Year your chance to make your own pleasure a priority through anal experimentation – and maybe put some lube on your holiday shopping list while you're at it.
For most of the show, where she was sat next to Ariana's brother Frankie, she sat with her chin in her hand in the universal pose for boredom (iconic, sorry) but when the set rolled around to Dangerous Woman cut "Bad Decisions" which has some "risqué" lyrics (read: swearing), her attention was piqued.
This article originally appeared on Noisey UK.  Over Christmas our attention was, let's say, piqued (read: I was rendered unable to breathe properly for a number of minutes) by a short preview of "Crazy Crazy," a track by Japanese producer Yasutaka Nakata featuring global pop heavyweights Charli XCX and Kyary Pamyu Pamyu.
While Mr. Goddard was keen to see how the town had changed in the 25 years since his school days, my interest in fossil hunting there was piqued by one of my favorite novels, John Fowles's "The French Lieutenant's Woman," in which one of the main characters is a gentleman fossil hunter.
Their curiosity was piqued, Dr. Namouni said in an email, by the further discovery last year that the planet and asteroid are locked together in an orbital and gravitational resonance: The asteroid completes an orbit in the same time it takes Jupiter, and so the pair would regularly tug on each other.
"It's like craft beer growing because people like the idea of something personal, local, not the standardized beer that everyone gets," said Crowley, whose interest in starting a team was first piqued by the stirring goal Landon Donovan scored to give the United States a victory over Algeria at the 2010 World Cup.
Recently, a Washington Post article about the unusual couple at the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute piqued our interest in the rare bird, who, unlike most of the squeaky clean female Bachelorette contestants, has a bad reputation: Walnut is rumored to have killed not one, but two male crane suitors in the past.
The news immediately piqued my interest since I spend almost all of my time at work on a Wacom Cintiq 22-inch touchscreen tablet, making things like this: The Cintiq is a top-of-the-line device and allows artists to draw directly on the screen almost as if they were working on paper.
During her junior year, she was chosen as Miss Illinois and then as Miss America, and she took a year off for her reign, during which she traveled the country talking about AIDS, a subject that had piqued her interest after a family friend, and two theater professors at Northwestern, died of the disease.
This is Mr. Kravis's Saturday debut in the Times, at least; he's co- and solo-constructed eight others for us, but he's one of those energetic types that constructs all over the place and keeps a blog with additional puzzles, so if your interest is piqued here, you can solve some more of his stuff.
Older generations often seem to be two steps behind in their music taste, confusing their ASAP Rockys with Whatsapp Rickys, so my interest piqued when one of my parents told me they'd recently been playing IDER—a duo from London who are adept at capturing some of life's deep feelings with a pop sensibility.
The idea of Plex becoming an established content distribution platform—that is, a place where users can reliably go and find legal, high-quality content without having to jump through jumps—immediately piqued my interest because it would help solve one of Plex's biggest issues, particularly for less sophisticated users: how and where to acquire high-quality content.
Photograph by Amy Lombard for The New Yorker On a stretch of Flatbush Avenue dense with takeout shops specializing in jerk chicken and the Caribbean staples that go with it, the rotisserie-and-sides concept seems not like a disruptive alternative but, rather, like a natural extension that piqued my appetite for all that the neighborhood has to offer.
The Bloomberg reporters quote "a person familiar with the probe" as confirming that several transactions in particular have piqued investigators' interest, including: Importantly, this has been in the works for a while — the Bloomberg report said it spiraled out of an old investigation into money laundering by former US Attorney Preet Bharara (whom Trump fired in March).
Silvia Killingsworth, who in 2016 became the editor of The Awl and The Hairpin — a website geared toward women — said that her main job was to discover talented new writers and encourage them to fully embrace their voice and style while writing about a topic that piqued their interest, no matter how obscure it might be.
According to Peaslee, new studies, environmental activism efforts, and the release of the film Dark Waters—in which actor Mark Ruffalo plays a lawyer who successfully sues chemical company DuPont for poisoning the entire town of Parkersburg, West Virginia, with PFAS—have piqued people's interest in how their own lives may be affected by these chemical compounds.
The final tally: 18 hours and 56 minutes of active travel time, 41.8 kilograms of carbon emitted, (300 kilograms less than that cheap, two-hour flight), one book of Alexander Chee essays read cover-to-cover, six Instagram stories of the passing views, countless naps and a piqued interest in discovering where else the rails might take me.
It was the abstention of Slovakia, piqued by its capital Bratislava being narrowly knocked out of the EMA voting in the first round, which allowed Amsterdam to pull level with early leader Milan and tie the runoff at 13-13 - a result few had expected given that all 27 member states bar Britain had a vote.
In quick succession, I downed calamari ripieni (tender squid stuffed with olives and bread crumbs), fiori de zucca farciti con baccalà mantecato (fried squash flowers filled with creamed codfish), moscardini in umido (stewed baby octopus), la buzara (scampi simmered in ginger- and pepper-piqued tomato sauce) and what may well be the best sarde in saór in Venice.
Further to this, Frank also ran a limited, one-day-only CD and vinyl release of his album Blonde on Black Friday, and as fans have finally got their sweaty little paws on IRL copies, the mysteries piqued by the cryptic list of album contributors in the "Boys Don't Cry" magazine accompanying Blonde's release are finally being solved.
Something about "Work" piqued my interest that first listen—something superficial; maybe the dancehall beat, or the loose, sexy sound of Rihanna's vocal—and I played it on repeat about ten times, letting it temporarily suck away the chill of the cold room with its single-glazed windows, the bouncy noise a vague reminder that somewhere else, people were dancing.
The organization's analytics have found that more than 13% of people who take a VR tour of a destination have their interest piqued enough to take the next step in the process of planning an actual trip, which is to say they either book travel and/or lodging, or get in contact to learn more about making an IRL visit.
After the USADA hearing for Thompson's case, the arbitrator wrote that it happened in the car on the way to Indianapolis as Thompson reviewed event materials that stated the first- and second-place athletes would be tested, which piqued his concern, and that he didn't say anything about cocaine to his coach because of "youthful nervous embarrassment," not the presence of a doping officer.
Several senators said they were particularly piqued by the managers' repeated insistence — put most bluntly by Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who at one point accused Republican senators of "treacherous" behavior — that the Senate was abetting a cover-up of Mr. Trump's misconduct and preparing to hold a sham trial by rejecting Democrats' demands for witnesses and documents.
But it's the terabytes of data streaming to Earth daily from a new generation of smaller, less-expensive satellites — thousands of which are slated to join the roughly 103,210 satellites already in orbit over the next several years — that have piqued investors' interest in everything from satellites themselves to software used to analyze their data and new rockets designed to loft them into orbit.
Alice: I found out about the pageant two years ago and it piqued my interest because of the scenes I'm examining and the images of empowerment, looking at African communities in the UK. When I initially tried to get hold of the pageant organizers two years ago, it didn't work out, but last year I got an email from them to say auditions were starting, and that I could go along.
The former provided Mind Transference candidates with an option to replace donor bodies with a body of their very own design — but since a minuscule segment of the population can afford the $2.5 billion for a procedure, the latter piqued the interests of investors and the general public alike, since a transplant from a deceased person to a 3D body surrogate can be done at a much, much lower price tag.
French figure skater Maé-Bérénice Méité, for example, piqued our interest when she chose to perform her routine to a medley of Beyoncé's "Halo" and "Run the World," and there have also been skates to "Despacito," and, uh, the Disturbed cover of "Sound of Silence" (that last one feels particularly destined for meme legend status, considering the song's line "Hello darkness, my old friend" is already common online parlance).
Toyota says its battery is solid state, which is what has piqued the interest of the battery community: If Toyota really has figured out solid state, that would allow the company sometime in the future to make a second big breakthrough — to swap in an anode made of ultra-energetic lithium metal, a substance that researchers have tried without success to get safely into lithium-ion batteries since the early 1990s.
The Texas Supreme Court affirmed on Friday a lower court ruling that had wiped out a $535 million jury verdict against pipeline operator Enterprise Products Partners LP over a soured pipeline project with its competitor Energy Transfer Partners LP, the latest chapter in an eight-year case that has piqued the interest of the oil industry due to its implications for business partnerships in the state of Texas.

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