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
On the shelf below the baffle tray, she kept what was left of Mammachi’s willow-pattern dinner service.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Giant steel pipe’s mysterious overnight growth spurt baffles a Japanese city.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026
That said, the Recording Academy never goes too long without making a choice that baffles everybody, as when Jon Batiste beat Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift in 2022.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 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
"Why anybody was rioting in other towns away from Southport, it baffles me," says Mr Iqbal.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 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
"We arrived at 11:30 and walked straight in - I'm still baffled by the lack of queues that day," the 58-year-old recalls.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
Rex Heuermann to serve three consecutive life sentences in a long-unsolved case that baffled prosecutors for years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
Those words might have drowned out the vociferous objections of Banka, who in October sounded baffled when he dismissed the Enhanced Games as a “ridiculous idea.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
For seven decades, the Eurovision Song Contest -- which gathers performers from across Europe and further afield, selected by each country's public broadcasting service -- has delighted and, at times, baffled spectators.
From Barron's ● May 16, 2026
She managed a weak smile, a bit baffled by his sudden charm.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
It will go down as a baffling missed opportunity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Now, markets are retreating in spectacular fashion, baffling executives and analysts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
But it’s still baffling, to say the least.
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
“To me he’s had the greatest career of any NBA player … for him to do it again and answer the bell again, it’s … baffling in some ways.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2026
I drew two identical girls side by side, which he found even more baffling, given that Leah and I—the beauty and the beast—were the twins under consideration.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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