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References by Johnson’s government to “the Australian model” in briefings to journalists have bemused EU officials because no deal has yet been agreed with the Canberra government.

From The Guardian • Feb. 2, 2020

But the book is studded with titillating mathematical believe-it-or-nots, puzzles and paradoxes that have bemused men through the ages.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have bemused myself with gnostic and metempsychosic speculations.

From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by Locke, William John