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Likewise James Clyde, who gets every laugh he can out of Horace’s valet, Bates, whom Eric Blore made such a consternated, rubber-faced classic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

St. John cuts a striking figure onscreen but he brings a low-key focus to Buford, coming off more as a consternated neighborhood leader than a fiery radical.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2022

When Wales in that year’s World Cup consternated the All Blacks and then England by playing a running game, it was said that the change was despite Hansen, not because of him.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 1, 2015

The message would engage consternated consumers in a way that meritorious professional initiatives like R-CISC cannot.

From Forbes ● Oct. 6, 2014

She stood for a moment "consternated," as the country folks say, and then folded her arms, and with the little bunch of onions held defensively under her left elbow, awaited his approach.

From The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Another consternating item of last week's news was the summary discharge of Emil Gumbel, statistician visiting the Genetics Congress, from his professorship in the University of Heidelberg.

From Time Magazine Archive

And then upon Hilversea and its surroundings and dependents fell another bolt—swift, sudden, consternating.

From The Red Derelict by Mitford, Bertram

So the chance to put his serviceability to the proof in consternating circumstances like these, afforded her a subtle satisfaction.

From Mary Wollaston by Webster, Henry Kitchell

Margaret Jones manifested startling efficacy of hands and medicines, consternating keenness of perceptives, predictions subsequently verified, and the presence of a vanishing child.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen