baffle
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Eventually, Ver’s team and Bhirud hit on the deal that would baffle criminal tax experts.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026
He empathizes with people born in the 1940s who feel irrelevant, since even 20-year-olds now baffle him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025
The question of how these two—a vulgar revolutionary and a soft-spoken, polite epitome of the GOP old guard—have stayed together for so long, with such limited drama between them, can baffle observers.
From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2025
So the Queensferry Crossing was fitted with 3.5m-high baffle barriers to break up and deflect gusts of wind.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2024
My own mother is looking at me as if I completely baffle her mind with my looks, my height, my hair.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
Giant steel pipe’s mysterious overnight growth spurt baffles a Japanese city.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026
“Sometimes it baffles us,” said chief prosecutor Hsing Tai-chao.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
"Why anybody was rioting in other towns away from Southport, it baffles me," says Mr Iqbal.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2025
Yet still he baffles and wrongfoots people, both opponents and more neutral observers, political professionals and voters, Americans and foreigners.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2025
It’s a blind spot that baffles local and international human rights groups.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
"I was just baffled by the quality of the refereeing."
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
There are two kinds of iPhone shoppers: People who know exactly which model they’re going to get, and people who are completely baffled by Apple’s increasingly motley lineup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Because of that, it always baffled me how some people managed to retire with significant wealth.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
During the war, he baffled international negotiators with rambling diatribes on Serbian history.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
I looked up at him, still baffled, and he held a finger to his lips and silently slipped over the edge of the fountain and into the water, dragging me behind him.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
That’s when Maye, the breakout star of last season, made the baffling decision that swung the first game of the 2026 NFL season.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
She said the authority found the shift towards more fly-tipping "baffling" and said they were struggling to "figure out how to talk to people" about the issue.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
When mediocrity is the core objective of an extremely powerful company like this one, success hinges on turning the once-discerning viewer into a machine cog as mindless as one of Netflix’s baffling originals.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
So what better time to drop a new album full of arcane jokes, baffling vocal affects and light conspiracy theorizing?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
The days in Vught were a baffling mixture of good and bad.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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