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At a Cafe Beaujolais-style inn Margaret Fox first opened the doors of her iconic cafe nearly 50 years ago, delighting locals and wooing besotted Bay Area weekenders. John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2025 But Zehme remains too besotted by Carson to reconcile these disparate pieces of the man in any meaningful way. Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2024 In a difficult role, Freeman makes the besotted teacher an incurable romantic, at least in his eyes. James Verniere, Boston Herald, 26 Jan. 2024 Stone, who also executive-produces, is Bella Baxter, the subject of a strange, questionably ethical reanimation experiment at the hands of Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe) and his besotted assistant, Max McCandles (Ramy Youssef). Rachel Handler, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for besotted

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“Besotted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/besotted. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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