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- verb Present participle of
bemuse .
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Examples
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Print MPs doubt supermarket scheme to spot carers Using supermarkets to identify carers has been described as a "bemusing" and "nonsense headline-grabbing idea" by members of the health select committee.
BBC News - Home 2012
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The general public would find it "bemusing" if WHO followed a "mechanistic" plan based on future concerns without carefully considering the current severity of the virus, he added.
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It's amusing, really, but it's also "bemusing," because a perfectly good word already existed.
CJR 2008
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It's amusing, really, but it's also "bemusing," because a perfectly good word already existed.
CJR 2008
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Cool Cuke holothurian A few weeks ago, I took part in an event showcasing the king of WTF foods—the food item that wins the crown for most bemusing common ingredient in the Chinese culinary vocabulary: The humble holothurian, better known as the common sea cucumber.
Week in Words 2011
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No matter how civil the discourse, the thought of Mr. Bush and Mr. Clinton on stage is bemusing, given the animosity of the past 16 years, and the efforts under way to overcome it …
Could George W. Bush Be Charged With War Crimes? : Law is Cool 2009
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No matter how civil the discourse, the thought of Mr. Bush and Mr. Clinton on stage is bemusing, given the animosity of the past 16 years, and the efforts under way to overcome it …
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As for even the possibility of military-based motivation talks catching on over here, the only notable precedent features Alastair Campbell, who in his stint as the British and Irish Lions press officer – sorry, "media guru" – attempted to inspire them with some speech about the SAS in Bosnia, and succeeded only in bemusing and appalling the players in equal measure.
Wheel out a Major Dan Rooney and people on British streets would laugh Marina Hyde 2010
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At Timothy Taylor, our assumptions of the proper place of art media are further beguiled by ambiguous mix ups of drawing, painting and digitally manipulated sculpture, an exercise in evocative restraint that is as bemusing as it is irresistibly melancholic.
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I've received such e-mails over the years somewhat bemusing since, with all there is to read online, people who dislike animals should probably be able to find something other than "pet talk" to read.
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