flummox

It has continued to flummox consumers in countries such as Spain and Italy, where "mermelada" and "marmellata" respectively are commonly used for spreads made from other kinds of fruit, such as plums and figs.

From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026

That is roughly as much as Tesla and, if it happens, will flummox traditional aerospace and defense analysts just like Tesla’s valuation can upset traditional car people.

From Barron's ● Dec. 12, 2025

The provision is remarkably straightforward—a far cry from the ambiguous, sloppy, or muddled laws that typically flummox the judiciary.

From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2024

A D-CAPTCHA system poses a test that’s designed to flummox current real-time deepfakes — for example, asking callers to hum, laugh, sing or just clear their throat.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2023

Fern had managed to completely flummox the Establishment.

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia

How a city that built itself on imagination and self-promotion could miss an opportunity right in front of us — something the world would pay attention to — simply flummoxes me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2023

Becoming a threat with the deep ball will simply add a new wrinkle to Rising’s skillset, which routinely flummoxes defenses.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 9, 2022

That is one of the things that flummoxes many of the critics.

From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2019

The growing complexity of our financial lives flummoxes plenty of people, too.

From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2015

"Nobody flummoxes Hold-Your-Nose Billy and gets away with it!"

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman

He is a filmmaker with an abiding humanism, evidently flummoxed in the face of the nonhuman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

The chief of detectives, Louis Cottell, for his part, made no effort to hide how flummoxed he was by the killer’s refusal to take credit.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 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

It’s a seemingly simple thing to set up, but when I asked him where he wanted to eat, he was flummoxed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

The attention flummoxed state officials, who were still struggling to cast North Carolina as “different” from the Deep South.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

More broadly, considering England's campaign as a whole, the wild form fluctuations are most flummoxing.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026

The words come fast and furious and flummoxing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025

Ah well, at least he’s got his topic of the week on which to elaborate: the flummoxing fact he’s hitting a little draw rather than a little cut these days.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2022

More than a month ago, when Olympic rosters were still coming into view, Sweden’s coach offered a plain-spoken assessment of a field whose fluidity and mystery were flummoxing men’s hockey executives around the world.

From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2022

Butler threw a stick into the spokes of Houston’s well-oiled machine to start the half, flummoxing the Cougars with a more aggressive defense.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2021