baffle
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Eventually, Ver’s team and Bhirud hit on the deal that would baffle criminal tax experts.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026
He empathizes with people born in the 1940s who feel irrelevant, since even 20-year-olds now baffle him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025
The question of how these two—a vulgar revolutionary and a soft-spoken, polite epitome of the GOP old guard—have stayed together for so long, with such limited drama between them, can baffle observers.
From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2025
Fans are entitled to expect the technology to reduce the errors by highlighting the obvious mistakes, not baffle them with science.
From BBC ● May 6, 2024
A failure to realize that my chunks may not be the same as your chunks can explain why we baffle our readers with so much shorthand, jargon, and alphabet soup.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Giant steel pipe’s mysterious overnight growth spurt baffles a Japanese city.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026
Among them is Clarence Willard, billed in a 1920s Vaudeville advertisement as “the man who grows” and “completely baffles all medical and scientific experts.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
"It just baffles me that in 2025 there is still no talk of regulation really coming to Northern Ireland," she told BBC News NI.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2025
Yet still he baffles and wrongfoots people, both opponents and more neutral observers, political professionals and voters, Americans and foreigners.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2025
There is much about Chris that still baffles him and always will, but now he is a little less baffled.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Both won for solving problems that have baffled mathematicians for more than a century.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
If you’re baffled by that choice, or Michelle Pfeiffer’s comedy supporting nod for “Margo” while getting nothing for carrying “The Madison,” you’re right to have very pointed questions.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
Four years later, he’s no less baffled to have become the subject of a new documentary, “Peter Asher: Everywhere Man,” directed by the filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
A fan from Paris though was baffled by the order to leave the stands.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
She just seemed lost afterward, peering around in a baffled way.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
So what better time to drop a new album full of arcane jokes, baffling vocal affects and light conspiracy theorizing?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
If you find that phrase baffling, consider yourself fortunate.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
Now, markets are retreating in spectacular fashion, baffling executives and analysts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Even more baffling is the fact that just one week ago a mountain lion was found in a residential area of Santa Monica, which similarly prompted shelter-in-place warnings for people living nearby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
The words and actions of white people were baffling signs to me.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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