baffle
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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
So the Queensferry Crossing was fitted with 3.5m-high baffle barriers to break up and deflect gusts of wind.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2024
“It’s an acoustical baffle that’s also soft to the touch,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
If he chooses to lie hidden, he may baffle us for years; and in the meantime!—the thought is too horrible, I dare not think of it even now.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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
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
"Liver donation is something that's not really spoken about and that's the bit that baffles me," she said.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2025
There is much about Chris that still baffles him and always will, but now he is a little less baffled.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Another source I spoke to was "eaten alive by anxiety" over the investigation and baffled that Germany, a close ally of Ukraine, was even pursuing prosecution.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
She was baffled by the notice from the elections office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Because of that, it always baffled me how some people managed to retire with significant wealth.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
My tech friends are exuberant about abundance, reluctant to discuss who will benefit from it, and baffled that so many Americans are anxious about AI and questioning capitalism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Sam, Ess, and Loo looked baffled by all this.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
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
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
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
Worry rises on her face as she realizes for the first time that her calls were not only alarming to me, but utterly baffling as well.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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