perplexing
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When DI Glyn Walsh returns unexpectedly early from bereavement leave, he and DS Sion Dearden work together to solve the perplexing murder of an esteemed university professor.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
Though her film is singularly witty, Kramer refuses to shy away from tough subjects and perplexing contradictions.
From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026
However, it has been “a little perplexing why stocks have sold off the way they have” for the most recent round of IPOs, he said.
From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026
Now, facing irrelevance and the perplexing 1960s, she falters.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
These peculiar and at first perplexing predictions of special relativity are true in the deepest sense that anything in science is true.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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