flummox

The words come fast and furious and flummoxing.

Anderson — flummoxed as he watched Montgomery come to the mound as he called on right-hander Connor Brogdon from the bullpen — has only finished the fifth inning twice in his past five starts.

Long ago it became evident that when even the most sophisticated AI systems are flummoxed by a question or task, they fill in the blanks in their own knowledge by making things up.

Elsewhere, Robinson has become the poster boy for male social anxiety: the pariah who is so flummoxed by the rules of polite chitchat that he crosses the line and bursts into tears.

The anti-abortion movement is, right now, flummoxed about what to do about that.