baffle

The real critique of character is reserved for the French, who live to baffle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Eventually, Ver’s team and Bhirud hit on the deal that would baffle criminal tax experts.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026

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

And then he noticed my pajamas, which seemed to baffle him for only a second before he said, “Oh, wow.”

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi

"As a mother myself, I feel like we already have to deal with a lot. We don't have the mental health support that we should have. It just baffles and really saddens me," she added.

From BBC ● May 6, 2026

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

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

For decades, parents were baffled, if not horrified, by their kids’ musical tastes, from rock and hip-hop to emo and metal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

MarketWatch’s Jeffry Bartash, Jillian Berman and Greg Robb examine how a labor market with relatively few layoffs but little hiring has left job seekers struggling and economists baffled.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

“I’m a little baffled because I signed my kid up for soccer,” she tells the officers, “so they are literally kicking him out of this place because he’s good at soccer.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Michael O'Neill has said he was "baffled" by some of the refereeing decisions in Friday's 1-0 win in Georgia.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Which left only the middle line, and that one utterly baffled them.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

Then came Shadab and another baffling defeat for England, who could be out before they play their final game against Sri Lanka on Thursday.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

The friendship became “a safe place for us to also be irreverent” about such baffling discoveries, of which there were “millions,” the CFO said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The man who has made a career out of baffling other people seems genuinely baffled himself, reduced to explaining the word “can” to the founder of Theranos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Chutzpah, however, is sometimes all it takes to get this kind of baffling, brazen and potentially exploitative deal across the finish line.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

The days in Vught were a baffling mixture of good and bad.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom