bemused
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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
She stumbled over several words and spoke about everything from the price of coffee in Italy to iguanas in the United States, leaving her co-hosts in the studio bemused.
From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026
In Camblanes-et-Meynac, locals were bemused by the story.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026
I tried leaning on it, hand on hip, and felt myself transformed from a geriatric sourpuss into a bemused observer of the human cavalcade.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
They all sat still, all bemused by the beauty of the thing, each mind was popped into the future when this lovely thing should come about.
From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
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