mystification
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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
Nonetheless, the questions the audience asked betrayed a “Where’s the art?” kind of mystification.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 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
Pilar Ternera was the one who contributed most to popularize that mystification when she conceived the trick of reading the past in cards as she had read the future before.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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