bewildering

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Liberalism has come to acquire a bewildering range of meanings over the years; our understanding of the word is, by necessity, contextual.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

"They send such a bewildering amount of information through that a lay person couldn't understand it," he said.

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2026

But Jareth and “Labyrinth” introduced a new generation to the magnitude of his bewildering, potent artistic sorcery.

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026

An avid numerologist, in 1987, he issued new currency in denominations of nine -- a digit considered auspicious, but bewildering shoppers with mental arithmetic.

From Barron's • Dec. 21, 2025

Chemists also used a bewildering variety of symbols and abbreviations, often self-invented.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson