muse
Example Sentences
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She’s also just my muse so I’m obsessed with her.
From Los Angeles Times
The 95-second Mandarin-language video shows an officer walking through a military installation musing about ruthless power struggles at the top of the armed forces.
He sounds thoughtful now, like a philosopher musing about the meaning of life.
From Literature
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Sterne was a muse of the broken-hearted, and, for all its oddities, “Tristram Shandy” is 18th-century sentimental fiction at its finest.
My story this week explained the phenomenon, which grew even more viral after bots in the army Steinberger unleashed began posting strange and fantastical musings on a social network called “Moltbook.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.