bewildering
Example Sentences
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Residents and officials were left grappling with a bewildering question: How did the fire become so deadly so quickly?
For many in Scotland, where culture, tradition and pride were intertwined with coal, steel and textiles, the pace of change was bewildering.
From BBC
Though Samartzis often talked with wonder about the way the Antarctic ice would “sing,” how dynamic and curious it always seemed, the roar he’d chronicled was terrifying, a bewildering testament to climate change’s ferocity.
From New York Times
This situation is undeniably bewildering, and deliberately so.
From Salon
The saint must have been disruptive, bewildering figure, but when Francis’s exasperated father calls him a bum and a brat, it feels all-too accurate.
From New York Times
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