baffle
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Eventually, Ver’s team and Bhirud hit on the deal that would baffle criminal tax experts.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026
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
And then he noticed my pajamas, which seemed to baffle him for only a second before he said, “Oh, wow.”
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
"As a regular cinema and theatre-goer, it is the bane of my life. Just turn it off and enjoy what you're watching. It truly baffles me."
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
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
Yet still he baffles and wrongfoots people, both opponents and more neutral observers, political professionals and voters, Americans and foreigners.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 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
Because of that, it always baffled me how some people managed to retire with significant wealth.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
Since history's most powerful telescope went online in 2022, it has been spotting many extremely bright cosmic objects dubbed "little red dots" in the early universe that have baffled scientists.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
When officers finally acted, they pulled only half the hose out, leaving the rest coiled inside the cabinet, and stood there baffled as to why the water wouldn’t flow.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
“I understand that I have value as a performer, but I still don’t get how I got this part,” he says, sounding a bit baffled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
This, of course, bred in her mother a kind of baffled fury, and she never tired of telling Elizabeth that she was an “unnatural” child.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
Yet ProPublica’s analysis found a stark and baffling increase: Almost 200 women with the condition died from 2020 to 2025, compared with about 100 in the previous six years.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
As if being ripped nationwide for his travel plans wasn’t painful enough, McVay will also be skewered for a baffling decision on a third-quarter play that could have rescued the Rams but instead doomed them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
She said the authority found the shift towards more fly-tipping "baffling" and said they were struggling to "figure out how to talk to people" about the issue.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
When mediocrity is the core objective of an extremely powerful company like this one, success hinges on turning the once-discerning viewer into a machine cog as mindless as one of Netflix’s baffling originals.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
She was one of them, really, blithe and girlish in her manner and her tastes—video games, Harry Potter, the baffling pop music they listened to.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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