baffle
Example Sentences
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He empathizes with people born in the 1940s who feel irrelevant, since even 20-year-olds now baffle him.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025
The question of how these two—a vulgar revolutionary and a soft-spoken, polite epitome of the GOP old guard—have stayed together for so long, with such limited drama between them, can baffle observers.
From Slate • Jan. 20, 2025
Fans are entitled to expect the technology to reduce the errors by highlighting the obvious mistakes, not baffle them with science.
From BBC • May 6, 2024
But it is just this demand—- the requirement that citizens find ways to navigate a social world which will, necessarily, often baffle and horrify them—- that liberal societies must impose.
From Salon • Sep. 9, 2023
My own mother is looking at me as if I completely baffle her mind with my looks, my height, my hair.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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