bewildering
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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
Liberalism has come to acquire a bewildering range of meanings over the years; our understanding of the word is, by necessity, contextual.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
There is something intuitively catchy about brain attack, even if it’s also a little bewildering.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2026
"They send such a bewildering amount of information through that a lay person couldn't understand it," he said.
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2026
Chemists also used a bewildering variety of symbols and abbreviations, often self-invented.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
