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We got a divertingly problematic revival of "Roseanne" in the bargain, so there's that.

From Salon • Sep. 12, 2021

The result is a divertingly chatty yet thought-provoking exploration of how the family stories we don’t know can define us just as much as the ones we think we do.

From Washington Post • Aug. 2, 2021

Some divertingly old-fashioned gags ensue as LeBron, assuming his own two-dimensional animated form, gets a literal crash course in the highly elastic laws of cartoon physics.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2021

“They’re going to get married,” royal expert Ingrid Seward declared this week, divertingly.

From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2019

Persons of ton guffawed like ploughboys over the discomfiture of an old hunks thus divertingly stripped of his bride, all his betrothal gifts, and of the very clothes he wore.

From The Certain Hour by Cabell, James Branch