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 Sun occupies only a small area of the sky, meaning incoming sunlight reaches a solar cell within a narrow angular cone.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Those words capture a central tension in the sprawling show, which occupies interconnected galleries at the far end of the museum’s Resnick Pavilion.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of occupies
Verb
  • What interests me most about Apple's approach is what happens after the iPhone recognizes something.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2026
  • But what interests me most here is the lightning, the actual lightning.
    — Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of interests
Verb
  • 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
  • As McQueen is about to call the police something in her raw honesty, her boldness, intrigues him.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 25 Aug. 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 main draw is the Desert Spring hydrotherapy circuit, which involves plunging between multiple hot and cold pools, steam rooms, and saunas.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Spooking, for example, involves stationing a partner near a dealer.
    — Kit Chellel, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of involves
Verb
  • What fascinates me most isn't simply whether Wagner can squeeze 621 miles out of this massive battery.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Gauna has filmed hundreds, maybe thousands of great white sharks across Southern California, and still their every movement, every action, fascinates him.
    — Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of fascinates
Verb
  • By any objective measure, the Pan America is a capable, comfortable, raucous-sounding, brute-faced, mile-killer that attracts only the very finest heathens.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Botswana, which attracts international tourists for its rich wildlife, has a policy to compensate local people for human-wildlife conflict incidents and hundreds of cases are recorded each year.
    — Sello Motseta, Los Angeles Times, 2 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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“Busies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/busies. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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