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
Notaro’s wry delivery here is a mere amuse bouche to some of the background work she does later.
From Salon • May 21, 2021
“So far as that goes, I did not ask to be bom. I suppose he did that to amuse himself, also.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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