perplexing
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Perplexing feelings of anxiety and doubts that she ever could be a fit mother for her baby crept into her head during pregnancy while living in her small one-bedroom apartment.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2021
Perplexing is a better descriptor, and in this context, a positive one.
From Salon • Feb. 23, 2017
A Casebook of Ingenious, Perplexing and Totally Satisfying Puzzles is available from the Guardian Bookshop and other retailers.
From The Guardian • Jan. 2, 2017
Perplexing some feminists and the justices then on the bench, several of her cases had male plaintiffs, including a widower who wanted to be the primary caregiver for his son.
From MSNBC • Apr. 28, 2015
The venerable "Lait Gustise" sees the Sights, under Perplexing Difficulties.
From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870 by Various
Vocabulary lists containing perplexing
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