bewildering
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Residents and officials were left grappling with a bewildering question: How did the fire become so deadly so quickly?
His sudden fall appeared to him all the more bewildering because, for years, he had been one of the city’s principal local power brokers.
From New York Times
The answer is as bewildering and eye-opening as the story itself: a family of families.
From Los Angeles Times
“Each experience is presented with equal weight, each diary or memoir paraphrased with dispassionate neutrality. This format ensures an extraordinary — and bewildering — range of striking details.”
From New York Times
To people accustomed to voting in primaries by walking into a polling site, privately completing a ballot and walking out — which is to say, most of the country — caucuses may seem bewildering.
From New York Times
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