bafflement
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Perhaps the best part was Michael Che’s complete bafflement as to who these women are and why they’re mad at each other.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026
Eliot got it from the start, but in Woolf’s case bafflement joined forces with snobbery.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
It was met with bafflement at why a provocative television host was being tapped to run the Pentagon.
From Slate • Dec. 4, 2024
A union leader I was talking to expressed bafflement at how the government had handled it, letting it continue to generate headlines all summer long.
From BBC • Sep. 11, 2024
Florence smiled inwardly a small, malicious smile, watching his slow bafflement, and panic, and rage; and she looked at her mother again.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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