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

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

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

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

"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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2025

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

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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

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

My tech friends are exuberant about abundance, reluctant to discuss who will benefit from it, and baffled that so many Americans are anxious about AI and questioning capitalism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

She gazes into their faces, eyes and mouth wide open, baffled but delighted.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

As if being ripped nationwide for his travel plans wasn’t painful enough, McVay will also be skewered for a baffling decision on a third-quarter play that could have rescued the Rams but instead doomed them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

It is perhaps one of the most baffling phenomena in history.

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley