busies

verb

present tense third-person singular of busy
as in occupies
to hold the attention of the video game busied the child for hours

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Recent Examples of busies Silberman also busies himself as chairman of the welcoming committee. — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 2 May 2026 While the former tracks profits and expectations, the latter busies itself with tangible stuff, from jobs and wages to GDP. — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2026 Meanwhile, while Miranda busies herself with building a pageant empire, her husband Ray, a pill-popping nurse, has knocked up the 18-year-old granddaughter of one of his hospice patients. — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for busies
  1. occupies
  2. interests
  3. intrigues
  4. immerses
  5. involves
  6. fascinates
  7. attracts
  8. engrosses
Verb
  • Funko occupies a massive physical footprint in a far corner of the convention center at SDCC, the annual pop culture festival that attracts over 130,000 fans and geeks from around the world.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 24 July 2026
  • Unless those fundamentals change, the trade deficit is likely to remain not just persistent, but historically large — regardless of who occupies the White House or how aggressively tariffs are deployed.
    — Ken Roberts, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
Definition of occupies
Verb
  • Pushing Content That Doesn’t Interest The Audience New marketers often lead social posts with company news, product features or promotional content without considering what interests their audience.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
  • What’s underneath Beulah and what’s really driving her is what interests me.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 7 July 2026
Definition of interests
Verb
  • If this topic intrigues you, join us at the free, online Work on Purpose Summit on July 30, 2026.
    — Laurel Donnellan, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • That’s what intrigues them about coming to work for a large company that’s constantly evolving.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 8 June 2026
Definition of intrigues
Verb
  • This exercise immerses you in the outdoors and encourages you to appreciate even the smallest patches of green.
    — Jancee Dunn, New York Times, 25 June 2026
  • Camping in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks is an otherworldly experience that immerses you in thousands of years of natural history.
    — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 23 June 2026
Definition of immerses
Verb
  • He’s pivoted nicely from relying on Aemond and Vhagar to a plan that involves sowing chaos and propping up a challenger by, among other things, printing new money with the challenger’s face on it.
    — Brian Grubb, Vulture, 20 July 2026
  • Another Schiller inquiry involves the familiar complexities of Medicare.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
Definition of involves
Verb
  • But the skillful way in which they are woven together belies the efforts that went into telling this story, and Lovely Reader, this dedication to quality fascinates me.
    — Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • There is something magical about a firefly that fascinates young and old alike.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 6 June 2026
Definition of fascinates
Verb
  • Protesters took to the streets hours after the shooting, disrupting a popular Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra outdoor concert at the state Capitol that attracts about 30,000 every week in the summer.
    — Scott Bauer, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2026
  • Yttrium attracts attention Yttrium emerged as one of Diamond Creek’s strongest features, with concentrations commonly ranging from 800 ppm to 2,000 ppm.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 July 2026
Definition of attracts
Verb
  • And that unsettles and engrosses us.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2026
Definition of engrosses

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