amuse
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“If Ford wants to amuse himself, all right,” rival auto maker Joseph J. Cole said on the Five-Dollar Day.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
The temptation to amuse the audience led him to betray his duty to appraise the work of aspiring artists who tremblingly dared present themselves before His Nasty Majesty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
"Slay" as a slang term means to greatly impress or amuse, and "sigma" means popular or successful.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2025
In a year of exuberance and dread, songs came from every which way to comfort, to amuse, to haunt, to tantalize.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2024
“If I cannot slay your foes, how shall I amuse myself whilst you are being wed?”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Pizza always amuses me with its contentiousness among certain types of home cooks — the flour, the oven, the hydration, so many absolute rights and wrongs.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025
Kit doesn’t know much about her father, who died just after she was born, and the mythologizing of her birth amuses her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2023
Reminiscent of an idyllic village on the Mediterranean, with pops of vintage California, this colorful little beach town on the northeast shore of Monterey Bay amuses him every time he swings by.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2023
An anecdote in which Felton draws Alan Rickman’s ire by trampling on his flowing robes amuses, as does the disarming thought of the Snape actor lining up for lunch on set.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2022
Maybe people will think it's something we plotted together if I seem like it amuses me now.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
"We can't even fill the coffee cups to the brim or they spill," his son Linus, 19, added with an air of amused exasperation.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
But if the movie were a person, he’d be vaguely amused.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Maxidel was not amused and insisted on the validity of previous agreements.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Hardin is more amused than annoyed, particularly given the origin of the FTD Burger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
The corners of the old man’s eyes crinkled, amused.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
As amusing as it is, “Marble Hall Murders” doesn’t improve on its predecessors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
But my gaydar was also going off big-time around Dorothy and Marshall, news they found amusing when I told them recently.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
The Norway supporters also provided an amusing moment during the quarter-final with England.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
If someone’s doing a pretty good impression of you, I think that’s kind of amusing, but he didn’t know who I was.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026
He spoke conversationally, laughed as if I had made an amusing reply, and moved off to the pickled blackfish.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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