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mystification

[mis-tuh-fi-key-shuhn] / ˌmɪs tə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən /


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This innovation was greeted with awe, if not mystification, by audiences at the time.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

There’s a sort of indifference that turns into mystification that turns into sadness around that.

From New York Times Jul. 8, 2022

You could hear the searching in his voice, the mystification over where all the fairy dust went from his swing.

From Washington Post Jul. 19, 2021

Here Aucoin, as though fishing in the same Rhine as Wagner did, creates a sense of wonderment and mystification.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 3, 2020

Cutie gazed upon his long, supple fingers in an oddly human attitude of mystification, “It strikes me that there should be a more satisfactory explanation than that. For you to make me seems improbable.”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov




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