1
as in amuses
to cause (someone) to pass the time agreeably occupied
disported themselves with silly games while they waited in the airport
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2
as in plays
to engage in activity for amusement
a full-service resort where vacationers may disport at a variety of indoor and outdoor activities
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3
as in dances
to play and run about happily
the puppies disported in the backyard while we ate on the patio
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4
as in displays
to present so as to invite notice or attention
football fans triumphantly disported the sports memorabilia for which they had just paid extravagant prices
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Verb
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And Griffin Hanson amuses in several small roles.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Apr. 2026 -
The thing that amuses me the most?—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
22 Feb. 2026
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Reid plays this so well, but the direction is a little over the top, with drug-trip visuals that are too distracting to follow the dense-as-ever disjointed narration.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
8 June 2026
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Haiti opens its World Cup campaign against Scotland in Boston on June 13, then plays Brazil June 19 in Philadelphia and Morocco June 24 in Atlanta.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
7 June 2026
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Demi Remick, who currently dances alongside a live iteration of the YouTube sensation Postmodern Jukebox, is adapting Eleanor Powell’s solos from Hollywood’s Golden Age.—
Lauren Warnecke,
Chicago Tribune,
29 May 2026
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Tolly Sherry dances with her son Brad at his wedding.—
Wakisha Bailey,
CBS News,
27 May 2026
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Fahd Abu Haikal, 41 displays a mobile photo of his seven month old Palestinian baby boy Sam.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
6 June 2026
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Many of their performances are blasphemous, and their work only displays hate and mockery of Catholics and the Christian faith.—
Jon Root OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
6 June 2026
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The Green Griller likely has an herb garden blooming in his yard and entertains in a rugged yet stylish manner with a variety of equipment that imparts a clean, outdoorsy flavor without leaving behind ash.—
Catharine Kaufman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 May 2026
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But, of course, nobody entertains for a moment the thought that the fund could conceivably reward an actual victim of weaponization.—
Jonathan Chait,
The Atlantic,
19 May 2026
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Gage’s version recreates the speech in a Southern dialect, which Truth almost certainly never used.—
Tracy Grant,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 May 2026
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Instead of a Buffy-like television show, however, this one recreates a fictional slasher franchise called Camp Miasma, a typical homicidal-maniac-versus-horny-teens-in-the-woods series that bears more than a passing resemblance to the Friday the 13th movies.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
20 May 2026
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With nothing holding her down but a dead-end job and an aging dad, a small-town Texan girl is swiftly bedazzled by a smooth criminal drifter, and hops into his car to pursue a life less ordinary.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
7 June 2026
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Those suborbital hops were paused in January so the company could focus on New Glenn and upcoming moonshots.—
Marcia Dunn,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2026
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In this state, CO2 exhibits properties of both a liquid and a gas.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
1 June 2026
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Though Microsoft’s valuation reflects a discount to its historical mean, the wider software sector exhibits other notable pricing irregularities.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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“Disports.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disports. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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