baffle

Last year's attempt was ended in the most extraordinary style by Djokovic who, playing through the pain of a torn hamstring, used his nous to baffle Alcaraz and come through a four-set thriller.

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2026

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

Sugar-Girl nudged Otis with her elbow, and he stepped up and helped them get her situated between the extractor and the baffle tank.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

Giant steel pipe’s mysterious overnight growth spurt baffles a Japanese city.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026

Among them is Clarence Willard, billed in a 1920s Vaudeville advertisement as “the man who grows” and “completely baffles all medical and scientific experts.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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

"And the manager right now, he baffles me with his tactics sometimes. I think he's completely lost in what he's trying to do."

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2025

There is much about Chris that still baffles him and always will, but now he is a little less baffled.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

Since history's most powerful telescope went online in 2022, it has been spotting many extremely bright cosmic objects dubbed "little red dots" in the early universe that have baffled scientists.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

When officers finally acted, they pulled only half the hose out, leaving the rest coiled inside the cabinet, and stood there baffled as to why the water wouldn’t flow.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

“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

Both won for solving problems that have baffled mathematicians for more than a century.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

I threw Russell a baffled look when I saw a metal hose with an apparatus resting on an out-rigged stand near the faucets.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Over his past 10 starts, his ERA is a completely baffling 5.47.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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

Even more baffling is the fact that just one week ago a mountain lion was found in a residential area of Santa Monica, which similarly prompted shelter-in-place warnings for people living nearby.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

For historians of technology, the Phaistos disk is even more baffling; its estimated date of 1700 B.C. makes it by far the earliest printed document in the world.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond