nonplus
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He found cross-examinations mentally invigorating, soon learned that he could nonplus storming attorneys if he kept smiling no matter how galling their insinuations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Phonny was put quite to a nonplus by this unexpected answer.
From Mary Erskine by Abbott, Jacob
They were put to a nonplus, and summoned the Devil to their relief.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene
“Why, the loon’s but a bairn,” said Mr Macdougall, at a nonplus for some objection to my promotion.
From On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story by Overend, William Heysham
“By Jingo, that’s a bad job,” cried the skipper, but he was not long at a nonplus.
From The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea by Austin, Henry
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