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It’s an endless stream of nothing, meant to fill time more than entertain, like the brainrotted AI slop that pollutes TikTok streams, except many leagues less interesting.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Parents had arrived equipped with sandwiches, books, playing cards and colouring paper to entertain their children during the wait for the pope on his way to a makeshift alter down the road.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

The point of this recent academic study is that only during this one week per quarter should you even entertain betting on high-beta stocks.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Today, Sheeran contends his aim is to entertain, not inflame, and there’s every reason to believe he’s sincere in that claim.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Neighbors would drop by while Hugh was off at the hardware store, and I'd struggle to entertain them with a pathetic series of simple nouns.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

Britain's The Guardian newspaper said the movie "entertains us with creepy campfire tales" but the Hollywood Reporter called it a "dull existential drama" while The Wrap website described it as a "frustrating slog".

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

No one entertains the idea that one person’s graffitied tribute to a male gladiator might have been defaced by giving the picture breasts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

The paved terrace, for example, is an imitation of a similar space in Palm Beach where the president routinely entertains.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2025

However, what entertains a live audience in the stadium differs from what works on national television, and the technology needed to bridge that gap had to evolve.

From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2025

He entertains pipe dreams: the Frenchman will invite him in.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

“The sheer volume of information captured is not something that is entertained, in my view, by the Fourth Amendment,” said Rep. Mitch Little, R-Lewisville.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

As if those amenities weren’t enough to keep the Hollywood star entertained, the property also features its own ski slope, as well as a tennis court.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

He even looked into playing arena football and entertained the idea of playing for the Los Angeles Avengers, but that thought only lasted a day or so.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

He entertained mass audiences so successfully that his murder mysteries, spy sagas and innocent-man-accused tales became their own genre: the Alfred Hitchcock Movie, often imitated but never equaled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

During the ride Cassiopeia entertained the infants with her own doggy-themed version of the farm animal song, in which every animal either barked or howled.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

Prada’s top customers spend about €7, or about $8, with the brand for every euro it spends entertaining them, Guerra said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

I got mad at myself for even entertaining the idea.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The stories are the reason to read the book, because they’re more entertaining than raw data points.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

The new Madring circuit looks like one of the worst on the calendar for entertaining racing.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

She spoke with her hands, entertaining her two youngest children with fluid movements of such consummate grace that it seemed as though light music should be filtering from somewhere in the dizzying late afternoon heat.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy