perplexity
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Most amusing is the creators’ sincere perplexity at their creations being taken seriously.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
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
For the first time since Amicalola I took off my jacket and realized with mild perplexity that I had absolutely no place to put it.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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
Their performance enhancements, to my mind, did not present any perplexities.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 16, 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
He was a young-looking man, in spite of his perplexities and his very grey hair, and his manner seemed quite natural.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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