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 Ruston anticipates Loco Coyote to be open Wednesday through Sundays, so locals can enjoy a few weekdays before the tourist crowd busies the restaurant during the weekends. — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 July 2026 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
  • The 16-acre complex of 19th-century mill buildings occupies almost a third of the North Adams downtown business region.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Zhu-Nowell is executive director and chief curator of Shanghai’s Rockbund Art Museum, which occupies a 1930s building renovated by British architect David Chipperfield in 2010.
    — Stephy Chung, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of occupies
Verb
  • Love doesn’t necessarily make a good photograph, but the photographer’s interest, and the intelligence and imagination behind it, can contribute to the making of a picture that interests us.
    — Hilton Als, New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2026
  • That is what interests me — things that can only be truly grasped through contact with crowds of people.
    — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of interests
Verb
  • What intrigues you about taking this fish, who’s been out of water, and throwing him back into familiar waters?
    — Derek Lawrence, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The novel that will form the basis of Reacher’s now-in-production fifth season, 2015’s Make Me, finds Reacher visiting a midwestern hamlet called Mother’s Rest because the town’s name intrigues him.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of intrigues
Verb
  • Centre d’Art Marcel Gagnon is a riverside accommodation that immerses guests in the works of local artists, with 100 waterfront sculptures comprising a large-scale art installation and an on-site gallery.
    — Maryam Siddiqi, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2026
  • In Nobody Wants This, agnostic podcaster Joanne Williams (Kristen Bell) begins an unexpected romance with Rabbi Noah Roklov (Brody), which shakes both their families as Joanne immerses herself in Noah’s culture and decides to convert to Judaism.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of immerses
Verb
  • The program involves the city offering incentives to developers to construct housing that is needed in the city, according to city officials.
    — Marc Hayot, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2026
  • One story involves an innocent coal miner, condemned to death in 1877, who left a handprint in his cell at the Carbon County Jail that no amount of sanding or paint has been able to erase.
    — Marcus Librizzi, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of involves
Verb
  • Amid all the con artists and fraudsters this century has produced, Holmes is the one who fascinates us the most.
    — Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The reaction to this movie fascinates me, starting in Cannes.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of fascinates
Verb
  • Called the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, or RAGBRAI, the ride attracts thousands of cyclists from throughout the nation and world.
    — Washington Post, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Seeking sense to her loveless existence, at least in the novel Ana attracts the predatorial lust of Magistral Fermín de Pas, her sensual confessor at La Vetusta cathedral, as well as the attentions of local Don Juan Álvaro Mejías.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 23 Oct. 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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