See siren song on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From the songs of the sirens in Greek mythology, whose bewitching song lured mariners to their doom.",
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"ref": "2009 March 26, Michael Elliott, “Global Trade: The Road to Ruin”, in Time:",
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"text": "They found Xinyi Du at the apex of the DUAL Core, a massive quantum computer which plunged away below them where a series of catwalks and maintenance accesses buzzed with drones and shone with dozens of blinking indicators. It was spinning; Wettle had never understood what practical reason a computer might have to spin, but perhaps it wasn't practical at all. Most of the Foundation's best scientists succumbed to some extent to the siren song of the rule of cool.",
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"word": "seireenien laulu"
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"word": "canto della sirena"
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