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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

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

“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

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

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026

“Sometimes it baffles us,” said chief prosecutor Hsing Tai-chao.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

“It baffles all of us as animal lovers. Who could do this?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2025

"It is difficult to think of any information more sensitive than that which is involved with the scheme, and it baffles me why there were not better security measures in place," he added.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2025

“What baffles me,” Winifred mused, “is where young Matthias has got to. It’s not like him to miss the chance of a battle.”

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

MarketWatch’s Jeffry Bartash, Jillian Berman and Greg Robb examine how a labor market with relatively few layoffs but little hiring has left job seekers struggling and economists baffled.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

“They were like, ‘You should be seen in a better car,’ ” Turturro recalls, still seemingly baffled by the suggestion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

I am regularly baffled by teams' tyre strategies, but Ferrari's in Singapore was the worst in recent years.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Fox’s announcers were baffled, wondering out loud if France’s hit should have been a home run.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Of course it made the Red Army soldiers even angrier at the Germans, but it also baffled them.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

The latest example: This weekend’s follies in the NFC East, where a pair of victories were lost in baffling last-second fiascos that showed the humble limits of human function.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

The theme of the Woodland Trust's annual competition was Against All Odds, with trees across the UK shortlisted for being impressive, beautiful and sometimes baffling examples of how nature can survive adversity.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Andy Pages finally broke out of his baffling two-year October slump with a hit so powerful, it sent the Dodgers to the NLCS.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Chutzpah, however, is sometimes all it takes to get this kind of baffling, brazen and potentially exploitative deal across the finish line.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

The same is true for the two baffling sentences I used on page 140, the ones about moderate drinkers and Serbian intervention.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker