baffling
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“To me he’s had the greatest career of any NBA player … for him to do it again and answer the bell again, it’s … baffling in some ways.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2026
They have stumbled their way through the last nine years with cronyism, poor drafting, inexplicable trades and player contracts that are absolutely baffling.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2026
As in the baffling series of self-inflicted mistakes the legendary UConn women’s basketball coach inflicted on himself and his program during and after South Carolina’s 62-48 upset of the previously undefeated Huskies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
She found it baffling how employers who reported qualified overtime in Box 14 of employees’ W-2s didn’t calculate it the same way.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
Instead, it used stepping switches, electronic devices that scrambled the message in baffling ways.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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