muse
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She also rejected being described as the artist's "muse".
From BBC β Jun. 25, 2026
Hockney made “A Bigger Splash” while living with his partner and muse, the artist Peter Schlesinger, on Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times β Jun. 12, 2026
“The muse spark API will be coming soon! we have been thrilled with the amount of excitement amongst developers who want to try muse spark inside their agentic harnesses,” he wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jun. 4, 2026
Lorenze sometimes likes to conjure a tournament-specific muse.
From The Wall Street Journal β May 15, 2026
“Calliope. Named for the muse of poetry. I’ve never met her, but I’ve heard she’s beautiful.”
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
"You can't stop the Earth from turning or the years from passing," Lula muses in his gravelly voice in one of the social media videos he shares showcasing his workouts.
From Barron's β Aug. 2, 2026
As Rue muses in a voiceover, she’s beautiful, directionless and “so desperate for attention she’s willing to humiliate herself.”
From Salon β May 4, 2026
“Rage becomes ridiculous,” Beverley muses, “when it has nowhere to go.”
From The Wall Street Journal β May 1, 2026
America is still one of CMAT’s greatest muses, as well as the country that helped develop the dreams she now feels almost guilty for having.
From Los Angeles Times β Apr. 15, 2026
Even the word 'music' comes from the Greek povaiy - mousike, referring to the fruits of the nine muses in literature, science and the arts.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
“If we stop telling ourselves that the world is so-and-so, the world will stop being so-and-so,” Don Juan mused.
From Los Angeles Times β Jun. 23, 2026
"With all these openings that are happening now, maybe I'll start a business," the 43-year-old mused.
From Barron's β Jun. 19, 2026
OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman was recently reported to have mused puckishly about the company offering its services to the highest bidder among America’s geopolitical rivals.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jun. 16, 2026
While trying to pick a vice-presidential candidate in 2024, Trump reportedly often mused: “Where is my Cary Grant?”
From Slate β Jun. 11, 2026
“As Cicero once said, ‘The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves,’” Penelope mused.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Jouppi is the case that asks them to stop musing.
From Slate β Jul. 28, 2026
President Donald Trump riffed on his White House predecessors in a children's podcast Friday, while also joking about his weight and musing as to whether his body is swimsuit-ready.
From Barron's β Jul. 3, 2026
The co-author of a report musing about artificial intelligence disrupting a host of businesses says he was betting those companies would go down in value.
From MarketWatch β Feb. 24, 2026
Those examples have Carnegie Mellon’s Green musing: “Maybe there’s someone writing something now about the U.S. buying Greenland.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Jan. 15, 2026
The young man is shaking his head, musing.
From "How the GarcΓa Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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