befuddled
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No wonder Hilton look befuddled when my dad regaled him with the tale of entering the U.S. for the first time in the trunk of a Chevy in 1968.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
“There’s a beetle that emerges on the cusp of summer. It has lots of colors. Blue, gold, purple. It looks like a turtle,” she tells a befuddled Rhaenyra.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
With a voice at times bitter, befuddled and bemused at his own wrecked life, Busby emerges as a self-aware, sympathetic survivor who knew his best work came at the beginning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
But the day before contracts were exchanged Sarah received a phone call from her "befuddled" estate agent saying he had some bad news.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Then the water evaporated and the earth rose, so that not even a small depression marked the terrain; and nowadays nobody knows in which field the befuddled sheepherder dug his fabled hole.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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The New SAT: Words to Capture Tone
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The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 7
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Grade 9, List 5
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