flummoxed
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Shanahan has also felt flummoxed whenever he checks what time it is for his family back home and sees that they’re a day behind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Over in San Francisco, which faced down a severe heat wave in March, Google Weather users were left flummoxed by the charts of low-70s temps, way milder than the 90-degree record felt by downtown residents.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
The decision by the Sussexes to decamp from Montecito to England has flummoxed royal watchers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The causes of endometriosis have left our best doctors and scientists totally flummoxed: no-one in the world knows definitively how and when it begins in a woman's body.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
I am too flummoxed to know what to say.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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