baffle

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

Fans are entitled to expect the technology to reduce the errors by highlighting the obvious mistakes, not baffle them with science.

From BBC ● May 6, 2024

But it is just this demand—- the requirement that citizens find ways to navigate a social world which will, necessarily, often baffle and horrify them—- that liberal societies must impose.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2023

‘That would not baffle a Ranger,’ said Gimli.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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

“It baffles all of us as animal lovers. Who could do this?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 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

After bringing the RTG into the Hab, I very carefully glued some tubing around the heat baffles.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

“I understand that I have value as a performer, but I still don’t get how I got this part,” he says, sounding a bit baffled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

What’s more, many dealers remain baffled that Polestar wasn’t able to obtain the OK to keep selling in the U.S. when Volvo was.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

All these decades later, I understand the calculus but remain baffled by that reasoning.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

The Tartan Army's coronation of statues in Boston baffled locals and global audiences alike, however the practice has divided opinion at home.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

I stood staring at the guy, completely baffled.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña

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

Durango’s Quinn Simmons continues to race like a mustached demon, and it’s a little baffling his Lidl-Trek team isn’t more committed to setting him loose to get the stage win he’s clearly eager to take.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

If you find that phrase baffling, consider yourself fortunate.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026

Philadelphia, meanwhile, brims with talent, including new hire Jaylen Brown, landed via a baffling trade by Boston.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

We sat there another moment, both of us wrestling with the baffling implications of receiving a Cocoon.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin