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The mycologists knew each other and were bemused by the insistence that they not distribute cultures.
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Radcliffe then recalled an appearance on The Graham Norton Show over a decade ago, where he appeared alongside Rihanna, admitting she was “bemused” by his rendition.
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 Fallout 76 / Credit: Bethesda SoftworksMeasures aren’t as strict these days and now I regard Fallout 76 with the bemused but quizzical look that you share with seeing someone from your school class in your hometown.
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Though initially bemused by his appearance — his head is a gigantic buckeye nut after all — somehow I was inspired by the way he brings joy to fans, such as by doing push-ups after touchdowns or rapidly pounding his head before games.
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"Both bemused and touched, Hana Sofia agreed and the two women exchanged numbers.
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but they were quite far away from Greg With the Radio 1 family hard at work to help a bemused Greg begin his jigsaw, the first pieces quickly began to be found on Wednesday morning.
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"It's not April fools; this is real," Eve Online Creative Director Bergur Finnbogason said on the Fanfest stage, receiving bemused laughter in response.
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Rizwan was left bemused after Anderson zipped one round the edge of his bat and into the off stump.
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The snowy-haired Dubochet, who did his important work at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg before returning to Lausanne, is shown to be at first bemused and a little flustered by the hordes of excitable photographers who descend on his tranquil campus, clamouring for interviews and demanding a soundbite explanation of his work for the TV news.
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I’ve grown accustomed to expect either bemused detachment (à la Andy Cohen) or faux-concern (à la Chris Harrison) from my reality TV reunion hosts, but with this season in particular, Lachey has blazed a new path forward for the art form: nosy empathy.
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Smith was initially bemused by his peers’ process.
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He seeks out remarkable buildings in remarkable places before assuring their initially bemused owners that it really would be a good idea to welcome dozens of motorcyclists to spend the night on the premises in bell tents – and that they might like to lay on a lavish supper too.
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A bemused American voice apologises for “technical difficulties” over the PA.
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Unsurprisingly, the social media response has followed its own inevitable arc, from shocked to bemused to serious to exhausting.
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It connotes a bemused nihilism and a commitment to living by one’s own rules.
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She was, she says, persistently bemused when people suggested to her, for example, that Boris Johnson’s former adviser Dominic Cummings resembles Cromwell.
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“At first, I got just bemused attention, but now it’s become conventional wisdom,” he said.
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It is a trend that bemused Trevor Bayliss when he was England coach.
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He had previously worked as a newspaper editor and then a headmaster and philosophy teacher – inflicting his distinctive philosophical ideas on doubtless bemused pupils.
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Quiz: How well do you know disaster movies?Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton’s bemused faces and witty dialogue seal the moment’s fame, which was made before broadband and social media, but now crops up regularly on the latter.
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Ouch, surely that’s never worth it? It can also stop your enemy from using abilities the entire time it’s in play, but I’m bemused why anyone would want this.
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to close out the eight-crazy-nights portion — but, there was one more unexpected twist: an encore of David Lee Roth’s version of “Just A Gigolo,” with a bemused Beck holding a lyric sheet and becoming a dance partner for Jack Black while his Tenacious D bandmate Kyle Gass added occasional backup vocals.
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Line and length, jagging it the other way this time, zipping round the edge and into the off stump! Rizwan is bemused as he troops off.
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I’m bemused by the costs of plans in the US compared to Australia.
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Bruce Wayne wakes up in a cold sweat over the connection, but realizes that he fell asleep and got carried away to bed by his bemused father before the ending.
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Gwenn’s Santa is blissfully bemused by the competency trial that ensues, as he is convincing Doris’ cynical daughter (a very young Natalie Wood) that he’s the real thing.
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Consider a bemused brown bear with a salmon embedded in its ear; a pair of penguins striking dramatic Shakespearian poses; and the overall winner, a lion cub falling out of a tree in a most un-catlike manner.
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“I sang The Elements next to Colin Farrell and a very bemused Rihanna,” the actor said.
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 He described "bemused chats" with the other partygoers, as they couldn't figure out where it was supposed to be.
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Even Japanese trade officials — known for their measured demeanour — were ’bemused by how Japan’s sovereignty could be so disregarded’.
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"I sang 'The Elements' next to Colin Farrell and a very bemused Rihanna," he continued, "who I think was like, 'Who is this kid and why is he singing all of the elements?' And I guess Al saw that and was like, 'This guy maybe gets it.
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“Okay,” Grant said, with a bemused look on his face that said, Good luck with that.
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Guy Pearce was the ‘MVP of the Neighbours finale’: we all just fell in love with him again, right?Read morePresenting at the Australian awards on Wednesday night, Pearce appeared bemused that the 90-minute finale that he starred in turned out not to be a momentous swan song as had been expected.
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Her name comes from a children’s TV show Tost watched as a child called “Beany and Cecil” ― her serpent has a rather bemused expression, as if surprised to find herself surfing grass waves.
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A pair of bemused officers forced their way into a London gallery on Sunday, reportedly under the misconception that a sculpture of slouched-over woman was a real person in need of help.
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“I sang ‘The Elements’ next to Colin Farrell and a very bemused Rihanna,” Radcliffe explained.
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A secretary nervously announced this to the band and received a barrage of bemused expressions; this was pirating material in a way nobody had ever experienced before.
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“I sang ‘The Elements’ next to Colin Farrell and a very bemused Rihanna,” Radcliffe explained.
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With his fifth ball in Test cricket he bowled a bemused Zak Crawley with one that came back between bat and pad then, later, his sixth wicket stunned captain Ben Stokes.
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But another is simply that America tends to pride itself on its bloodyminded love of letting markets do the dirty work of solving consumer confusion, which growing up led my tech-bemused dad to clutter our house with Betamax tapes, laser discs and HD-DVDs (I believe we had copies of the 1955 movie version of “Oklahoma!,” a fatherly favorite, on all three formats).
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  He described "bemused chats" with the other partygoers, as they couldn't figure out where it was supposed to be.
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He had previously worked as a newspaper editor and then a headmaster and philosophy teacher – inflicting his distinctive philosophical ideas on doubtless bemused pupils.
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