confused
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People are confused about where they’re going, whether they’re gonna be able to have enough food on the table, whether they can afford gasoline.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2026
They also each serve the same purpose: to keep the public distant, confused, and grateful for whatever miserly scraps of information the justices deign to release to us.
From Slate • Jul. 2, 2026
Musk cautioned on the last earnings call that the fully-autonomous software wasn’t ready to scale because it still got confused by atypical traffic events.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 2, 2026
The most common symptoms of heatstroke are when a person becomes confused, and when they stop sweating and their skin feels dry and hot to the touch.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 30, 2026
It was weird how responsible he felt for the other two: plaintive, pitiful, confused Chip; naïve, gung-ho, enthusiastic Katherine.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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