muse
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Plus, the risk to oil supplies grows with disruptions in the Red and Black seas, and Lydia Corbett’s high ponytail made her Picasso’s muse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Sing to them, muse, of an uncomplicated man.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
Lorenze sometimes likes to conjure a tournament-specific muse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
It led former England captain Michael Vaughan to muse this week whether Sooryavanshi could become the "greatest striker of a cricket ball of all time".
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
Between them is the spirit, or muse, of arithmetic.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
"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 ● Aug. 2, 2026
"Leather on willow, country pubs and just the loveliness of England," she muses wistfully.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
Like many a cat lover, Baseman whips out a phone to share videos of his beloved feline muses.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
As Rue muses in a voiceover, she’s beautiful, directionless and “so desperate for attention she’s willing to humiliate herself.”
From Salon ● May 4, 2026
“I don’t know, Mitch,” Morrie muses, adjusting his glasses as he reads, “with work like this, we may have to get you back here for grad school.”
From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom
He mused that he probably could have been a doctor.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
“If it was all over now, do I feel like I did what I wanted to do? And if not, what would that be?” he mused.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
In line to buy merchandise Friday, Orange County’s Nick Valencia looked around and mused: “Wow, humans made this.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
Greenspan is most well-known for his 1996 speech in which he mused about irrational exuberance in the financial markets.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
“I’m thinking a cave in the hills,” Apollo mused.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
A woman wonders about the continuity of all things, musing “In the distance over the horizon, that freeway just keeps going and going; it’s all connected.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Jouppi is the case that asks them to stop musing.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
Later, Feinmann said his words were not directed at the Mexican people — while musing that Sheinbaum had bigger things to worry about, like combating narco-trafficking, violence and corruption.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 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 ● Jul. 3, 2026
He sounds thoughtful now, like a philosopher musing about the meaning of life.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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