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

The Blue’s Clues tester played the part of Steve, and walked the kids through the script, making a careful note of all the questions they answered correctly and those that seemed to baffle them.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

"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

“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

“We need to go grease the baffles on the bird feeders.”

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

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

The incident has baffled some Rhode Islanders, who wonder why the state has proven incapable of getting a country club to remove a simple stone wall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

Theo immediately unhands me, putting his palms in the air to show he has no intention of touching me again and looking worried and baffled at once.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Durango’s Quinn Simmons continues to race like a mustached demon, and it’s a little baffling his Lidl-Trek team isn’t more committed to setting him loose to get the stage win he’s clearly eager to take.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

But the licensing officer threatened to pull the plug on the show if the orchestra didn’t pay up, baffling musicians who joined their conductor to see what was causing the delay.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

Steve Heapy, chief executive of Jet2, said his airline found "the continued pursuit of a policy so baffling - in cases where it has clearly not been implemented in a robust manner".

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 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

At first I find the videos on kitchens and bathrooms baffling, and it takes me several minutes to realize why: there is no water, or almost no water, involved.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich