bemuse
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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
Still, the story of Stephen and Natasha Spender retains its power to shock and bemuse.
From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2015
"See Saw" shall upset your estimates, "Dream Faces" shall your heavy heads bemuse, Because your hand, unheeding, desecrates Our temple; fit for higher, worthier use.
From The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition by Kipling, Rudyard
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