bemuse
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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
Her diplomacy in July was directed towards combining this advantage with the appearance, needed to bemuse her people and the world at large, of acting in self-defence.
From A Short History of the Great War by Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)
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