bafflement
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There was bafflement on the faces of members of the Muslim community who arrived at the mosque bearing flowers on Tuesday.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
Here, inside of a tightly symmetrical structure, Giotto places the followers of Jesus speaking in tongues—flames sprout from their heads—while onlookers, separated by a low wall, view the scene with bafflement.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
In government, there is frustration and no small amount of bafflement that Burnham has decided to make these interventions now.
From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025
The billionaire entrepreneur-turned-efficiency expert has opined previously about the AfD, expressing his bafflement at the mainstream unease it prompts within Germany over echoes of the country’s Nazi past.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2024
Florence smiled inwardly a small, malicious smile, watching his slow bafflement, and panic, and rage; and she looked at her mother again.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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