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
So the Queensferry Crossing was fitted with 3.5m-high baffle barriers to break up and deflect gusts of wind.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2024
If he chooses to lie hidden, he may baffle us for years; and in the meantime!—the thought is too horrible, I dare not think of it even now.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
"As a mother myself, I feel like we already have to deal with a lot. We don't have the mental health support that we should have. It just baffles and really saddens me," she added.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
Giant steel pipe’s mysterious overnight growth spurt baffles a Japanese city.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026
“Sometimes it baffles us,” said chief prosecutor Hsing Tai-chao.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
The version of America to which they return, where rideshares and all-gender bathrooms are now the norm, baffles them.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2025
“We need to go grease the baffles on the bird feeders.”
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
She was baffled by the notice from the elections office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Fox’s announcers were baffled, wondering out loud if France’s hit should have been a home run.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Michael O'Neill has said he was "baffled" by some of the refereeing decisions in Friday's 1-0 win in Georgia.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
A baffled Erika felt that her mom had been replaced with a combative and paranoid stranger.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
“But I thought we were looking for places You-Know-Who’s been, places he’s done something important?” said Ron, looking baffled.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
If that seems a bit baffling, that’s also the point.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Andy Pages finally broke out of his baffling two-year October slump with a hit so powerful, it sent the Dodgers to the NLCS.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
The theme of the Woodland Trust's annual competition was Against All Odds, with trees across the UK shortlisted for being impressive, beautiful and sometimes baffling examples of how nature can survive adversity.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Chutzpah, however, is sometimes all it takes to get this kind of baffling, brazen and potentially exploitative deal across the finish line.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
This, spoken in a cool, tranquil tone, was mortifying and baffling enough.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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