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
The results challenge a so-called Darwinian paradox that expresses a sense of perplexity about the prevalence of same-sex sexual behaviors in many species.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 30, 2023
And Mrs. Hempstock observed, with a certain perplexity, that Daisy appeared to be smiling through her tears.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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
“I do suspect that in the midst of your perplexities at that time, you had very great amusement in tricking us all.—I am sure you had.—I am sure it was a consolation to you.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
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