baffle
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He empathizes with people born in the 1940s who feel irrelevant, since even 20-year-olds now baffle him.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025
The question of how these two—a vulgar revolutionary and a soft-spoken, polite epitome of the GOP old guard—have stayed together for so long, with such limited drama between them, can baffle observers.
From Slate • Jan. 20, 2025
So the Queensferry Crossing was fitted with 3.5m-high baffle barriers to break up and deflect gusts of wind.
From BBC • Sep. 3, 2024
But it is just this demand—- the requirement that citizens find ways to navigate a social world which will, necessarily, often baffle and horrify them—- that liberal societies must impose.
From Salon • Sep. 9, 2023
Sugar-Girl nudged Otis with her elbow, and he stepped up and helped them get her situated between the extractor and the baffle tank.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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