perplexity

Even so, a certain perplexity attaches to his supposed realism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The mainstream press expressed perplexity at his embrace of an Irish cultural identity "despite being born and raised in England".

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2025

The authors expressed perplexity about why excess deaths actually rose in 2021, despite the arrival of the vaccines and the implementation of social anti-pandemic measures, and remained elevated the following year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2024

“It seems that the sea was calm,” Francis said, seemingly expressing perplexity that such a grave tragedy could happen in those conditions.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 18, 2023

Mr. Pomodoro is especially bendy as he pulls his long legs and arms from the car and arranges his face in various forms of eagerness and perplexity and fumblingness.

From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech

The performances, too, are more likenesses than full characterizations, which, admittedly, is wholly in keeping with the perplexities being dramatized.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2024

In flight from perplexities of their own, and intolerant of those of others, many academics are not “captured by” Twitter; it is their “safe space.”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022

The paper focuses, as Kripke puts in, on “the perplexities some philosophers have felt concerning the simple first person pronoun ‘I’.”

From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2019

Stephenson carefully lays out the perplexities of this situation.

From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2019

In the meantime Mr. Pocket grew greyer, and tried oftener to lift himself out of his perplexities by the hair.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens