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
Alliance Party assembly member Peter McReynolds, who sits on Stormont's infrastructure committee, said it was "baffling" that DfI had extended the scheme "without producing any evidence to justify the decision".
From BBC • Apr. 18, 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
I drew two identical girls side by side, which he found even more baffling, given that Leah and I—the beauty and the beast—were the twins under consideration.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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