baffle
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Eventually, Ver’s team and Bhirud hit on the deal that would baffle criminal tax experts.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026
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
On the shelf below the baffle tray, she kept what was left of Mammachi’s willow-pattern dinner service.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Giant steel pipe’s mysterious overnight growth spurt baffles a Japanese city.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026
That said, the Recording Academy never goes too long without making a choice that baffles everybody, as when Jon Batiste beat Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift in 2022.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2026
Among them is Clarence Willard, billed in a 1920s Vaudeville advertisement as “the man who grows” and “completely baffles all medical and scientific experts.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
"Why anybody was rioting in other towns away from Southport, it baffles me," says Mr Iqbal.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2025
At the same time, it can’t be so complex that the first time around it baffles the children and turns them off.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
During the war, he baffled international negotiators with rambling diatribes on Serbian history.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
My tech friends are exuberant about abundance, reluctant to discuss who will benefit from it, and baffled that so many Americans are anxious about AI and questioning capitalism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
When officers finally acted, they pulled only half the hose out, leaving the rest coiled inside the cabinet, and stood there baffled as to why the water wouldn’t flow.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
“I understand that I have value as a performer, but I still don’t get how I got this part,” he says, sounding a bit baffled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
She pauses uncertainly, baffled by my lack of protocol as I rise from my chair and reach again for the wire headpiece.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Over his past 10 starts, his ERA is a completely baffling 5.47.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
So what better time to drop a new album full of arcane jokes, baffling vocal affects and light conspiracy theorizing?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
If you find that phrase baffling, consider yourself fortunate.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
Now, markets are retreating in spectacular fashion, baffling executives and analysts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
It was one of those baffling aberrations in Ammu’s taste, a cloud of stiff yellow lace with tiny silver sequins and a bow on each shoulder.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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