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And few could make Kristen as adorably consternated as Ms. Linney does.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

St. John cuts a striking figure onscreen but he brings a low-key focus to Buford, coming off more as a consternated neighborhood leader than a fiery radical.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2022

When Wales in that year’s World Cup consternated the All Blacks and then England by playing a running game, it was said that the change was despite Hansen, not because of him.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 1, 2015

The message would engage consternated consumers in a way that meritorious professional initiatives like R-CISC cannot.

From Forbes ● Oct. 6, 2014

And, by reason of that sudden surprisal, we, knowing ourselves innocent of the crime, were all exceedingly astonished and amazed, and consternated and affrighted even out of our reason.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen

Another consternating item of last week's news was the summary discharge of Emil Gumbel, statistician visiting the Genetics Congress, from his professorship in the University of Heidelberg.

From Time Magazine Archive

Margaret Jones manifested startling efficacy of hands and medicines, consternating keenness of perceptives, predictions subsequently verified, and the presence of a vanishing child.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen

So the chance to put his serviceability to the proof in consternating circumstances like these, afforded her a subtle satisfaction.

From Mary Wollaston by Webster, Henry Kitchell

And then upon Hilversea and its surroundings and dependents fell another bolt—swift, sudden, consternating.

From The Red Derelict by Mitford, Bertram