bafflement
Example Sentences
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Here, inside of a tightly symmetrical structure, Giotto places the followers of Jesus speaking in tongues—flames sprout from their heads—while onlookers, separated by a low wall, view the scene with bafflement.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
The result was widespread bafflement, as federal workers faced uncertainty over their employment.
From BBC • Feb. 24, 2025
The billionaire entrepreneur-turned-efficiency expert has opined previously about the AfD, expressing his bafflement at the mainstream unease it prompts within Germany over echoes of the country’s Nazi past.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2024
It was met with bafflement at why a provocative television host was being tapped to run the Pentagon.
From Slate • Dec. 4, 2024
He’s massively tall, shoulders like an ox and a thickened brow with lots of bafflement but not much tenderness.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
Vocabulary lists containing bafflement
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