perplexity
Example Sentences
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“But,” she says, “I can’t overcome a certain perplexity that here I am contemplating suicide … in a state of relative contentment.”
From Seattle Times
Her clients, too, each in therapy for different reasons, mirrored her perplexity.
From Los Angeles Times
Saturday also forbade us from asserting, whether in perplexity or pleasure, that we have not had a trace of snow all year.
From Washington Post
After I saw Mr. Gionet, I called up some of my old colleagues, who recalled him with a mixture of perplexity and repulsion.
From New York Times
I make that claim too, as do many people who study their own minds with deep perplexity.
From Scientific American
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