bemuse

Today, Troll Haven still stands sentry on the Olympic Peninsula — just as Bandy’s Southern California castles continue to amuse and bemuse Burbank residents and workers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2023

Her response is to clam up, presenting “a terminal face—nothing in it, nothing behind it, a well-turned-out nothing” that “I thought would bemuse the gossips, confound them.”

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018

As Phillips expresses it: “English people continued to bemuse and disappoint her. So much wasted energy. So much posturing.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2018

The likes of Danny Drinkwater and Ross Barkley, players whose presence at Chelsea appears to bemuse their boss, seem likely to be given a low-key chance to shine against Championship strugglers.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2018

Here the estimate of his accomplishment is difficult to render, bemuse comparison with the existing state is almost impossible.

From Mahomet Founder of Islam by Gladys M. Draycott

It’s like a magical realist novel in which the Carry On star bemuses the architect of the Russian revolution with a camp remark.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 4, 2015

Although exactly what male activists are fighting for, when men still dominate so many important areas of society, bemuses many others.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2014

Of many examples in my life, it bemuses me to remember that I used to be a devotee of Philip Glass.

From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2012

Endocrine-disruption research certainly addresses mechanisms but has an applied aspect, as a chimeric field that interweaves many disciplines and perhaps bemuses the unimaginative.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 11, 2011

He looks at an open window and the dark gap behind it of some room or other over there, a shadowy room that bemuses him.

From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Fitzwater Wray

And Lisa Gilroy is especially good as Matthew’s bemused campaign manager; everything that comes out of her mouth is hilarious, either for the words or the way she delivers them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

“Oh, my brother. Only an Aussie would ask me that,” a bemused Ossoff responded with a smile to TMZ reporter Charlie Cotton, who is Australian.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

He is bemused by Ricketts's attempts to paint him as a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

He was bemused when he talked to Slate on Sunday about the debate during an event in Charleston.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

He seemed bemused by my casual reference to his secret realities.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

Perhaps the most bemusing example of misinformation came in a bankruptcy case where a law firm submitted legal briefs using research derived from ChatGPT — including citations to six legal precedents that the AI fabricated.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2023

“It was amusing but also bemusing, because I didn’t know what they were.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2021

What Gaines does not miss is Gregory’s spirit, and its effect — amusing, bemusing, inspiring — on the world around him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2021

But Stuart, from his vantage point in a multi-occupied brownstone in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, found this highly public celebrity spat over the future of his city bemusing.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 29, 2020

Pallas Athena and Zeus All Provident will see you through, bemusing our young friends.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer