baffling
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What is more baffling than the botched decision-making at the time is that officials have been going through what happened behind closed doors for months.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
It was such a baffling overture that Xi suspected it was an impulsive gesture, said people close to Beijing’s decision-making.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
Slowly, “Undertone” reveals itself to be all style and very little substance, with enough baffling character choices to make you groan.
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026
To Gilbert Arenas, the former NBA star and podcast host whose son Alijah is a freshman guard with the Trojans, the move was particularly baffling.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026
The same is true for the two baffling sentences I used on page 140, the ones about moderate drinkers and Serbian intervention.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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