mystification
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This innovation was greeted with awe, if not mystification, by audiences at the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Vitali’s grown children speak with a mix of understanding and mystification at how completely their father devoted himself to another person, sometimes at the expense of being fully present in their lives.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2024
Telling Mom to take a hike is “so tough”; I don’t share your mystification.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2023
Here Aucoin, as though fishing in the same Rhine as Wagner did, creates a sense of wonderment and mystification.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2020
The chaplain was shocked by his bellicose words and tone and, to his own amazement and mystification, deeply chagrined that they were turning him loose.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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