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perplexed

[per-plekst] / pərˈplɛkst /
ADJECTIVE
confused
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“I’m perplexed by Buc-ee’s extremely aggressive position,” said Denenberg, who practices in New York, which is Buc-ee’s free.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 9, 2026

Then in the 2010s fertility dropped again, leaving researchers perplexed.

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2026

The perplexed faces of the agency people in those conference rooms feel familiar to me today.

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2026

Samuel Johnson complained, more than 250 years ago, that William Shakespeare’s style was “ungrammatical, perplexed, and obscure.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

So for the perplexed audiences who first heard it in 1804 and 1805, even the funeral march is denied its thundering climax, collapsing rather than concluding.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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