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stumped

adjective as in puzzled

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The president thinks outside the box, dispensing with the strategy of experts who have been stumped in the region for decades.

The onscreen version of Keaton is stumped when Alvy Singer brings her a copy of the philosophical tome “Death and Western Thought.”

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I understand that credit score is based on use of available credit, but I’m stumped as to why it’s so volatile.

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In contrast to Hoover, who had rarely left FBI headquarters and publicly avoided politics, Gray openly stumped for Nixon in the 1972 campaign.

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Amateur cricketers have been stumped after the sport was permanently banned at a village pitch where it had been played for more than 200 years.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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