- present participle of bewilder.
bewildering
Example Sentences
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One of the more bewildering primary results of the year came this week in Michigan’s 8th Congressional District, a swing seat currently represented by Democratic freshman Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2026
Passengers on board the Nottingham service described the collision as "bewildering and frightening".
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
With a richer, more bewildering harmonic vocabulary, Chopin revealed the full spectrum of the nocturne’s possibilities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
Shibley Telhami, a professor of peace and development at the University of Maryland and a fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank, says the threat of a blockade was "bewildering and seems self-defeating."
From Barron's ● Apr. 12, 2026
Chemists also used a bewildering variety of symbols and abbreviations, often self-invented.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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