bemuse

Today, Troll Haven still stands sentry on the Olympic Peninsula — just as Bandy’s Southern California castles continue to amuse and bemuse Burbank residents and workers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2023

Her response is to clam up, presenting “a terminal face—nothing in it, nothing behind it, a well-turned-out nothing” that “I thought would bemuse the gossips, confound them.”

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018

The likes of Danny Drinkwater and Ross Barkley, players whose presence at Chelsea appears to bemuse their boss, seem likely to be given a low-key chance to shine against Championship strugglers.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2018

Still, the story of Stephen and Natasha Spender retains its power to shock and bemuse.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2015

Destructive without being constructive, they bemuse themselves with long words, and scorn simplicity.

From Mufti by McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril)

It’s like a magical realist novel in which the Carry On star bemuses the architect of the Russian revolution with a camp remark.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 4, 2015

Although exactly what male activists are fighting for, when men still dominate so many important areas of society, bemuses many others.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2014

Of many examples in my life, it bemuses me to remember that I used to be a devotee of Philip Glass.

From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2012

Endocrine-disruption research certainly addresses mechanisms but has an applied aspect, as a chimeric field that interweaves many disciplines and perhaps bemuses the unimaginative.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 11, 2011

It bemuses an audience and gravels the players—as the queer uncertainty of touch of so skilful, so conscientious an actor as Mr. Ainley sufficiently betrayed.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

With a voice at times bitter, befuddled and bemused at his own wrecked life, Busby emerges as a self-aware, sympathetic survivor who knew his best work came at the beginning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Even if British politics has become increasingly unstable, the abrupt rise of Burnham, 56, reads like a low-rent mashup of “House of Cards” and “Monty Python,” leaving even scandal-hardened politicos bemused.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

Then came the World Cup, and for a month, a curious if somewhat bemused country sampled the world’s game up close.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

The saga has transfixed Germans since it began, and has left islanders on Anholt bemused by the continued interest.

From BBC ● May 31, 2026

The class tittered, and even Mr. Quisling looked somewhat bemused.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

A woeful lineout, poor discipline, inexplicable handling errors and a bemusing kicking strategy that was either not implemented correctly or raised questions about the tactical approach constructed.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2024

Perhaps the most bemusing example of misinformation came in a bankruptcy case where a law firm submitted legal briefs using research derived from ChatGPT — including citations to six legal precedents that the AI fabricated.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2023

What Gaines does not miss is Gregory’s spirit, and its effect — amusing, bemusing, inspiring — on the world around him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2021

But Wednesday’s game vs. the Cubs at Sloan Park provided an anecdote that some might consider to be bemusing irony or fitting coincidence.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2021

Pallas Athena and Zeus All Provident will see you through, bemusing our young friends.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer