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
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
What does surprise and bemuse me is the number of fans who have denounced it.
From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2016
Destructive without being constructive, they bemuse themselves with long words, and scorn simplicity.
From Mufti by McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril)
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