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
The area also symbolizes an inevitable truth about London: Without the thronging masses of tourists, and the attractions designed to amuse them, the city might disintegrate completely.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025
"Slay" as a slang term means to greatly impress or amuse, and "sigma" means popular or successful.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2025
From then on I kept looking out my cell window and from time to time it seemed I could see into my past and amuse myself with stories about my family and old friends.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
My husband’s explosive commentary sometimes amuses me and sometimes wears me down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2025
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
It amuses me that what they’re doing is a definition of insanity: You try something, it doesn’t work.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2022
Lubek makes Max mad, which amuses Mrs. Bessermann.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
Maxidel was not amused and insisted on the validity of previous agreements.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
And last year, four decades after first documenting life in Lacock, he again turned his flat but amused and sympathetic eye on the picturesque village to capture the smallest details of everyday life.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
As his star rose, he attracted amused attention with his Manhattan penthouse and Palm Beach compound, both outfitted to the gills in golden decor.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
As it all went down, Wembanyama looks somewhat amused; Robinson does not.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
“I think you and I could do as well as that if we tried,” returned Jo, amused at his admiration of the trash.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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
Each individual set piece is its own jewel of craftsmanship, usually combining the revolting with the amusing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
I found him amusing for all of about five seconds.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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