bewildering

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There is something intuitively catchy about brain attack, even if it’s also a little bewildering.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2026

But Jareth and “Labyrinth” introduced a new generation to the magnitude of his bewildering, potent artistic sorcery.

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026

An avid numerologist, in 1987, he issued new currency in denominations of nine -- a digit considered auspicious, but bewildering shoppers with mental arithmetic.

From Barron's • Dec. 21, 2025

Residents and officials were left grappling with a bewildering question: How did the fire become so deadly so quickly?

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

It was an act of concentration, of trying to hold within one’s center of attention all of that bewildering array of facts which science, politics, experience, memory, and imagination were urging upon me.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright