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entertain

[en-ter-tayn] / ˌɛn tərˈteɪn /




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St. Francis started keeping track of dunks last season, so expect that to continue, and the Golden Knights figure to attract and entertain fans with lots of dunks from their big men.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

I don’t think this is the right time for a band to just entertain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

“It’s not a permanent opposition,” he says, “There’s enough overlap already that we might see a staffer class that starts in DSA and is willing to entertain joining MYD.”

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026

Another newcomer to the industry, Sam Cohen, makes videos about his misadventures after buying a laundromat in Old Bridge, N.J., hoping to entertain his small following.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Tía Mari suggests we entertain ourselves playing cards, but when Mami sorts through the deck, she says, What on earth happened to the queen of hearts?

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez

Britain's The Guardian newspaper said the movie "entertains us with creepy campfire tales" but the Hollywood Reporter called it a "dull existential drama" while The Wrap website described it as a "frustrating slog".

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

No one entertains the idea that one person’s graffitied tribute to a male gladiator might have been defaced by giving the picture breasts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

Yet it somehow entertains, which is a testament to Zlotowski’s energy juggling her various theme-colored story balls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2026

The paved terrace, for example, is an imitation of a similar space in Palm Beach where the president routinely entertains.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2025

He entertains her in the back seat of the car when they drive on the highway on Saturday evenings, on the way to dinner parties thrown by their parents’ friends.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

On Thursday, Jassy entertained the possibility, saying Amazon anticipates “working with horizontal agents.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

The story goes that Disney would bring his daughters to the merry-go-round, sit on a bench and dream of a place where adults and children could be entertained together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

The updated policy does not explicitly cite so-called "model welfare," the idea that AI systems might deserve types of protection usually reserved for living things, but Anthropic and its executives have openly entertained the concept.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

There, he entertained the great and the good with legendary parties, serving with champagne and shepherd's pies.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

If I had entertained any suspicious before,” wrote Washington, the assurances you have given me of the contrary would have removed them; but the truth is, I harboured none.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

The result was the whimsical, entertaining and perhaps persuasive tutorial one would expect from this trio, with laughs aplenty peppering Tyson’s scientific explanations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

Solidcore founder Anne Mahlum is thinking big for her next home—a sprawling, 10-bedroom property designed around entertaining, family life, and her love of staying in.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

“That entertainment can be entertaining and has the capacity to do that,” he told the Journal, “is something that I think we have to be very proud of.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

The rooftop setting offers another option for entertaining, while the condo’s private terrace provides a more intimate alternative.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

His favorite companion on these tours was Mercury, the most entertaining of all the gods, the shrewdest and the most resourceful.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton


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