perplexed
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Perplexed, Olson asked Gemini what account it was pulling from.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
Norman Ornstein is emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and co-author of the bestseller “One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported.”
From Salon • Jun. 24, 2025
Perplexed by these claims, in 2015 I attended a workshop on integrated information theory at N.Y.U.
From Scientific American • Jun. 26, 2023
Perplexed, the dentist dug deep into his dental school textbooks and concluded that Charley had an extraordinarily rare disorder called hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2023
Perplexed, Hunt decided to put him inside the pressurized Gamow Bag, which was set up in a lodge adjacent to the HRA clinic.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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