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
A steal at $28 for three courses, diners saddle up to the counter, reminiscent of a chef’s table, for a French and Japanese-inspired amuse bouche with a main dessert, followed by petit fours.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2025
"Slay" as a slang term means to greatly impress or amuse, and "sigma" means popular or successful.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2025
Guests, Reek thought, his lordship s friends, and I am brought up to amuse them.
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
“It amuses me now to think that he was famous for these insane driving movies,” his niece Judith Newman said on Facebook.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2023
Remarkably, her pugnacious attitude amuses the princess, who grows to rely on the young “bush girl” for her refreshing candor.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2022
That’s why what happened in Chula Vista worries him as much as it amuses him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2022
“I’m sure that amuses you,” I say to her, “but she’s gone now, so it doesn’t matter, does it?”
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
"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
The few protesters taunted the agents, who mostly amused themselves.
From Slate ● May 29, 2026
I suppose I first saw “Brigadoon” as a kid at my grandmother’s house, amused at the way she goofily sang along.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
“Very funny, Jeremy,” Mr. Vincent said in a tone that didn’t sound amused.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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
That doesn't mean that comedy should suffer, with Seale saying that every time a scene could deliver a "killer gag", instead it was just "gently amusing".
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
It’s amusing to me that Haim’s signature walk was an inadvertent invention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
These jokes don’t even come off as ill-intentioned; they’re just not amusing.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
I look upon our life in hiding as an interesting adventure, full of danger and romance, and every privation as an amusing addition to my diary.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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