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  • present participle of amuse.
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amusing

[uh-myoo-zing] / əˈmyu zɪŋ /


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Amusing but also, for the most part, true.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Amusing as this line-drawing may be, these cases pose a real threat to long-standing employee safeguards.

From Slate • May 11, 2020

Amusing and sleepy pretty much describe this movie, which is based on a best-selling novel by Maria Semple.

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2019

The play’s dialogue and dramaturgy, however, are straight out of drawing-room comedy: Amusing zingers abound, and there’s an old-fashioned quality to the carefully crafted pattern of revelation, repercussion and tension.

From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2018

Amusing as are many of the anecdotes quoted, there is one which may be called “divinely” funny, being connected with a once well-known theologian—Dr. John Brown of Haddington.

From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by Somerville, H. G.




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