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

What does surprise and bemuse me is the number of fans who have denounced it.

From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2016

This poetry is also musically astute and demanding; it may surprise and alert the parental reader; and it has its share of archaisms and poeticisms, which, contrary to adult surmise, bemuse and fascinate children.

From Songs of Childhood by Hecht, Anthony

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

He looks at an open window and the dark gap behind it of some room or other over there, a shadowy room that bemuses him.

From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Wray, Fitzwater

However, Durham's county head coach Ryan Campbell later said Stokes was in "good spirits" and the county's chief executive Tim Bostock said he was "bemused" by McCullum's comments.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

The judge held the statue in her hands with a bemused look.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026

Just like on day one, the majority of the world's leading players were again left befuddled and bemused by a punishing course set-up.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

A bemused Charles looked on while Camilla laughed out loud.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

She felt dizzy, self-conscious, bemused, but she did as she had to and stepped up beside the old zalif.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Another defeat, another tournament gone, and another head-in-hands moment in the bemusing collapse of this iconic Manchester City team.

From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2025

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