perplexing
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However, it has been “a little perplexing why stocks have sold off the way they have” for the most recent round of IPOs, he said.
From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026
"At a time when the literacy levels are a concern why you would end a programme that you know is impactful and helps children with their reading seems a bit perplexing to us."
From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026
And while every film doesn’t need to be an intensely demanding challenge, it’s perplexing that someone with such a compelling on-screen presence has trouble translating that force to her first outing as a director.
From Salon • Jan. 1, 2026
The study also found a perplexing rise in unexplained illnesses.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
These peculiar and at first perplexing predictions of special relativity are true in the deepest sense that anything in science is true.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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