perplex

Their new relievers imploded, plagued by a string of injuries and perplexing underperformance that rendered the heralded trio all but irrelevant.

When Anna was planning her first visit to Xinjiang in 2015, her friends were perplexed.

He stumbled for a moment, a bit perplexed, before turning to his friends for help.

"We're always kind of perplexed where our money goes," he said.

Another key concept behind the new study emerged in the latter half of the 20th century, as physicists found that interesting and perplexing behaviors emerged near the edges and boundaries of materials.