be perplexed
Example Sentences
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Presidential scholars of the future will also be perplexed by the ordering of these photos.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2022
Many of those new participants may be perplexed, for example, as to why they would be allowed to choose a new governor if they voted to keep the incumbent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2021
Nevertheless, neither should you be perplexed by a gnawing desire for a second season you may harbor.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2019
No one at the palace gives a second thought to the striking workers they just undermined as they continue to be perplexed by the strange forces that are wreaking havoc on the economy.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2018
But to this I shall answer that a year wouldn't be a tenth part enough and that besides, as things stand, I should be perplexed where to spend it.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James
