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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

Fans are entitled to expect the technology to reduce the errors by highlighting the obvious mistakes, not baffle them with science.

From BBC ● May 6, 2024

“It’s an acoustical baffle that’s also soft to the touch,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024

“The things we know; the things we think we know but don’t know for sure; and the things that totally baffle us and are driving us bonkers.”

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

"As a mother myself, I feel like we already have to deal with a lot. We don't have the mental health support that we should have. It just baffles and really saddens me," she added.

From BBC ● May 6, 2026

Giant steel pipe’s mysterious overnight growth spurt baffles a Japanese city.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026

Among them is Clarence Willard, billed in a 1920s Vaudeville advertisement as “the man who grows” and “completely baffles all medical and scientific experts.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

The version of America to which they return, where rideshares and all-gender bathrooms are now the norm, baffles them.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2025

It’s a blind spot that baffles local and international human rights groups.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

Both won for solving problems that have baffled mathematicians for more than a century.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

What’s more, many dealers remain baffled that Polestar wasn’t able to obtain the OK to keep selling in the U.S. when Volvo was.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

All these decades later, I understand the calculus but remain baffled by that reasoning.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

Four years later, he’s no less baffled to have become the subject of a new documentary, “Peter Asher: Everywhere Man,” directed by the filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

Tess sat up with a start, looking around herself with such a baffled expression on her face that I almost laughed.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Stand-in captain Joe Root's tactics were baffling on a second morning that began England's spiral.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

But it’s still baffling, to say the least.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

“To me he’s had the greatest career of any NBA player … for him to do it again and answer the bell again, it’s … baffling in some ways.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2026

When Leath was charged with the murders of her two husbands a decade later, the confrontation with Walker made news again, but amounted to a baffling and salacious sideshow, its significance unclear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

By performing many transpositions on the same plaintext, and shuffling the columns, you can create a baffling message.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield