as in poet
a person who writes poetry
where is the muse who will sing of this man's great and noble deeds?
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as in to ruminate
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Recent Examples of muse
Marc Weingarten,
Los Angeles Times,
27 June 2026
Like any celebrity billionaire, Swift loves a designer label, but she has never been known as a front-row-at-Paris-Fashion-Week, luxury-brand-muse kind of It Girl.
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Morgan Evans,
USA Today,
25 June 2026
Fairchild Studio,
Footwear News,
13 Nov. 2025
Taken one at a time, the deployments can seem random or fickle — Trump will often muse about sending troops into a city, only to back track his comments and focus on a different city days later.
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Kat Lonsdorf,
NPR,
3 Nov. 2025
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Noun
Freddie Otash has been something of a twisted muse for you.
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Marc Weingarten,
Los Angeles Times,
27 June 2026
Like any celebrity billionaire, Swift loves a designer label, but she has never been known as a front-row-at-Paris-Fashion-Week, luxury-brand-muse kind of It Girl.
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Morgan Evans,
USA Today,
25 June 2026
Verb
When EviDenS de Beauté launched 20 years ago, founder Charles-Edouard Barthes started the brand as a love letter to his wife and muse Eriko Nakamura.
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Fairchild Studio,
Footwear News,
13 Nov. 2025
Taken one at a time, the deployments can seem random or fickle — Trump will often muse about sending troops into a city, only to back track his comments and focus on a different city days later.
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Kat Lonsdorf,
NPR,
3 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for muse
Noun
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Gardone Riviera itself is worth a wander, with the eccentric Vittoriale degli Italiani, the former estate of the poet Gabriele D’Annunzio, a short walk from the hotel.
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On the facing page was Gompers’s block print/line drawing of the Tibetan saint and poet Milarepa sitting in a lotus position, a Sierra cup at his feet, and a Campingaz Bleuet stove resting on a boulder.
Verb
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Carmy is still figuring out his next move, interviewing for an internship at an architecture firm while ruminating on his experience at the Bear.
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The characters have little time to make life-or-death decisions, let alone ruminate, and the action vacillates between triage and doctors expertly improvising solutions — like Mel (Taylor Dearden) donating her own blood, and Javadi (Shabana Azeez) going MacGyver mode with a tracheal tube.
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They were published in the North and South, performed in racist minstrel shows and polite parlors, and sung by abolitionists and defenders of enslavement alike.
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And with fiddles, accordions, guitars and her current instrument of choice, the minstrel banjo.
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This anxiety often leads to rumination, where individuals endlessly ponder potential outcomes without actual preparation, mistakenly equating thinking with problem-solving.
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Bravo is sipping its cuppa and pondering what to do about those interesting ladies across the pond.
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In the clip, the pair meditate while wearing matching Norway jerseys and soccer apparel.
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Not everyone needs to journal, and there’s more than one way to meditate.
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To see why, readers need only contemplate the growth of wealth around the United States at all income levels.
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But Cox and other officials warned anyone contemplating attending the fireworks festivities not to bring drones – or face arrest and a $100,000 fine.
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Trump blames vandalism for the troubles with the reflecting pool renovation, announces people are being arrested.
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The first-of-its-kind event reflected a party eager to experiment and broaden its appeal beyond the traditional political crowd.
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The global airport lounges market is projected to grow from $5 billion in 2025 to $20 billion by 2034, according to one estimate.
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Republican Michael Allen is projected to win his party's nomination in the attorney general's race, defeating lawyer David Willson.
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“Muse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muse. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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