bewilder

Example Sentences

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If the soul of Leif Erikson were to materialize inside his statue for a day, much of what he saw would bewilder him.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 13, 2023

Modern songwriting is highly collaborative in a way that seems to bewilder some folks.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2022

Thanksgiving is a time for making people happy, not for persuading them to drink avant-garde styles that you love but that may bewilder mainstream drinkers.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2021

Home-schooled by religious parents, she got into tech only after her pursuits of her first two academic passions — physics and philosophy — were thwarted by institutional failures that still seem to bewilder her.

From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2020

Bond market terminology was designed less to convey meaning than to bewilder outsiders.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis