perplexity
Example Sentences
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Most amusing is the creators’ sincere perplexity at their creations being taken seriously.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
The mainstream press expressed perplexity at his embrace of an Irish cultural identity "despite being born and raised in England".
From BBC • Aug. 9, 2025
The authors expressed perplexity about why excess deaths actually rose in 2021, despite the arrival of the vaccines and the implementation of social anti-pandemic measures, and remained elevated the following year.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2024
“It seems that the sea was calm,” Francis said, seemingly expressing perplexity that such a grave tragedy could happen in those conditions.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 18, 2023
Explored our far-flung underground world in an endless wargame of leaps onto nothing, ingenious twists into freedom or new perplexity, quick whispered plottings with invisible friends, wild cackles when vengeance was mine.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
