puzzlement

Example Sentences

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Multiple venture capitalists and technologists contacted by KFF Health News expressed puzzlement over what's driving the embrace from Musk and others.

From Salon

His wildly inventive outfits drew both admiration and puzzlement.

From Los Angeles Times

"I remember foreigners looking at me with puzzlement because it took me so long to come back with an answer on how old I was."

From Reuters

“Thank you so much for your support!” she wrote to celebrate her 1 million followers, drawing comments in Qatar reflecting a mix of admiration, outrage and puzzlement.

From Seattle Times

There was puzzlement, meantime, over China's last-minute decision to postpone its third-quarter economic growth numbers due to the week's Communist Party congress - with no new schedule for the key data release yet.

From Reuters