stumped
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Stair-climbing has stumped the robotics field for decades, as the activity requires continuous center-of-gravity shifts and visual information processing.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Cliffe isn’t afraid to admit when he is stumped.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
In recent months, both OpenAI and Anthropic have turned complex mathematics into an unusual form of marketing for their smartest models, trumpeting solutions to problems that had stumped humans for decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
On this occasion, he tried to wallop the spin of Tharindu Rathnayake over long-on and was stumped by a distance.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
The idea that a teacher would have a brother at all stumped Lloyd.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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