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

In normal times, such veneration tends to bemuse skeptics who associate Britain’s health service with dilapidated hospitals, overworked doctors and long waits for surgery.

From New York Times ● May 12, 2020

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

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

From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2015

"See Saw" shall upset your estimates,   "Dream Faces" shall your heavy heads bemuse, Because your hand, unheeding, desecrates   Our temple; fit for higher, worthier use.

From The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition by Kipling, Rudyard

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

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

However, when Stokes returned to play for his county, Durham chief executive Tim Bostock said he was "bemused" by McCullum's take.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026

A bemused Charles looked on while Camilla laughed out loud.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

He’s bemused in retrospect by the strange spectacle of a “little white boy in short trousers” frolicking with a Black man old enough to be his father.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

My teacher said nothing, just watched me watch them go with a bemused smile on his face.

From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis

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

He insists there is no truth in the persistent "bizarre and bemusing" rumours that he is one of the favourites to succeed Daniel Craig as the next James Bond.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2023

“It was amusing but also bemusing, because I didn’t know what they were.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2021

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

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

From "The Odyssey" by Homer