mystification
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This innovation was greeted with awe, if not mystification, by audiences at the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Spending £8m on the unproven Chermiti from Everton is still a source of mystification.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025
There’s a sort of indifference that turns into mystification that turns into sadness around that.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2022
Its enjoyment lies less in the story, but in the marvelous mystification of its telling.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2021
Cutie gazed upon his long, supple fingers in an oddly human attitude of mystification, “It strikes me that there should be a more satisfactory explanation than that. For you to make me seems improbable.”
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
Vocabulary lists containing mystification
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Vocabulary from Readings 2, Unit 5
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