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
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
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
"As a regular cinema and theatre-goer, it is the bane of my life. Just turn it off and enjoy what you're watching. It truly baffles me."
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
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
“Sometimes it baffles us,” said chief prosecutor Hsing Tai-chao.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
At the same time, it can’t be so complex that the first time around it baffles the children and turns them off.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
“I didn’t know that at the World Cup, the 5th of July is actually the first of April–April Fools’,” said a baffled Rudi Garcia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Four years later, he’s no less baffled to have become the subject of a new documentary, “Peter Asher: Everywhere Man,” directed by the filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
A fan from Paris though was baffled by the order to leave the stands.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
He admitted to being baffled as to why he had lost performance in recent races.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
At my baffled expression, he adds, “Some say ‘June’ is a last name.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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
BBC Sport attempts to unpick exactly what happened during one of the World Cup's more baffling episodes.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 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
She loves me but finds me baffling and unfeminine, and probably a troublemaker.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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