baffle

Last year's attempt was ended in the most extraordinary style by Djokovic who, playing through the pain of a torn hamstring, used his nous to baffle Alcaraz and come through a four-set thriller.

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 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

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

On the shelf below the baffle tray, she kept what was left of Mammachi’s willow-pattern dinner service.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

"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

That said, the Recording Academy never goes too long without making a choice that baffles everybody, as when Jon Batiste beat Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift in 2022.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 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

At the same time, it can’t be so complex that the first time around it baffles the children and turns them off.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

All these decades later, I understand the calculus but remain baffled by that reasoning.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

Four years later, he’s no less baffled to have become the subject of a new documentary, “Peter Asher: Everywhere Man,” directed by the filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

A fan from Paris though was baffled by the order to leave the stands.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

Rex Heuermann to serve three consecutive life sentences in a long-unsolved case that baffled prosecutors for years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

A doctor who didn’t understand local culture might mistake patients’ complaints for bizarre superstitions, or be utterly baffled by Haitian logic.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

It will go down as a baffling missed opportunity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

But the licensing officer threatened to pull the plug on the show if the orchestra didn’t pay up, baffling musicians who joined their conductor to see what was causing the delay.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

Stand-in captain Joe Root's tactics were baffling on a second morning that began England's spiral.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

Even more baffling is the fact that just one week ago a mountain lion was found in a residential area of Santa Monica, which similarly prompted shelter-in-place warnings for people living nearby.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

He seemed to absorb the baffling paradoxes of quantum theory with ease.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik