as in entertainments
someone or something that provides amusement or enjoyment
for visitors seeking more cerebral divertissement, the city boasts a fine performing arts center
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Noun
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In the years following, Reiner built a career making the kind of mainstream popular entertainments that barely exist anymore, pictures like The Bucket List (2007), The Story of Us (1997), A Few Good Men (1992), and the Stephen King adaptation Misery (1990).—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
15 Dec. 2025 -
There are other long-running holiday entertainments out there.—
David Lyman,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
11 Dec. 2025
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Occasional song-and-dance diversions are presented with dull simplicity, as the camera observes choreography at a distance, rather than embodying or enhancing it.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
23 Jan. 2026
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His speech at the Detroit Economic Club included a few diversions but was overall more targeted.—
Will Gottsegen,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2026
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Animation, blurry recreations, and, eventually, video footage are used to illustrate the violence inflicted upon Rushdie in August 2022.—
Addie Morfoot,
Variety,
22 Jan. 2026
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Seen here cosplaying as herself in some of the film’s least essential recreations, Shamraz determines that the locals can’t be trusted to save themselves, and sends in a rescue helicopter without communicating her plan to the anguished parents and friends who are watching the situation unfold.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
22 Jan. 2026
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Omaar Yemini said the addition was meant to ease the uninitiated into the delights of Haitian cuisine.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
29 Jan. 2026
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And yet watching the unfurling reel of Mumbai life on one narrow promenade is one of this city's quiet delights.—
Diaa Hadid,
NPR,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Divertissements.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/divertissements. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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