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Schwartz said that “the fact that there is a basic factual error in this bill has amused many people.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 15, 2022

In recent years, Raoult has amused himself, it seems, by staking out tendentious scientific claims, sometimes in territories that are well beyond the scope of his expertise.

From New York Times • May 12, 2020

But such hearings will also be treated as a spectacle by a society that has "amused itself to death."

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2019

Mr Trudeau and his family have also been in the news for wearing traditional Indian outfits several times on their trip - a decision that has amused some Indians and annoyed others.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2018

This speculation has amused me and may amuse some reader.

From Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil)