as in baffling
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as in complicating
to make complex or difficult
let's not perplex the issue further with irrelevant concerns
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as in puzzling
to throw into a state of mental uncertainty
the question perplexed me
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Recent Examples of perplexing
Marina Watts, People.com, 8 Oct. 2024
This perplexing square could also trigger miscommunication and unrealistic expectations, making the need to clarify your intentions all the more crucial at this time.
—Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 2 Sep. 2024
But a third group, which includes many independents as well as moderate Republicans, is the most perplexing.
—Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024
Navigating menopause can sometimes seem like wandering through a perplexing labyrinth with no clear exit.
—Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 19 Sep. 2024
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The Guardian reports that Queen Camilla had to calm down the King, 75, and explain what the perplexing plastic covering was.
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The little information the police did reveal was often confusing, baffling, even contradictory.Aja Romano, Vox, 11 Nov. 2024
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Walker’s campaign, however, was plagued by controversies and baffling and false statements.Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 4 Nov. 2024
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The most puzzling reveal was a new suspect sketch, reportedly drawn early in 2017.Aja Romano, Vox, 11 Nov. 2024
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These conflicting versions created a puzzling cognitive dissonance.Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2024
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Kody quickly came to Robyn’s defense, further frustrating Janelle.Liza Esquibias, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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Not all of these ideas will pan out, but if any do, the next few years could bring an inflection point in treating some of the most frustrating and intractable diseases of our modern era.Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2024
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Things to Come was directed by legendary production designer William Cameron Menzies, who later designed the burning of Atlanta in Gone with the Wind and clearly influenced Coppola’s skyscraper imagery and his bewildering mix of futurism and antiquity.Armond White, National Review, 9 Oct. 2024
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For Leifer, the irony—that Jews, who had long been pressured by the right to police anti-Zionism, now faced pressure from the left to disavow Zionism in any form—was bewildering.Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
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As of Wednesday, the broad, disorganized tropical wave was between Puerto Rico and the Leeward Islands, which mark a boundary between the open tropical Atlantic and Caribbean Sea.Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
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Meanwhile, studies have shown that most people are pretty disorganized in their political thinking: very few of us hold a suite of positions that’s intellectually coherent or consistent over time.Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2024
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Though a human would probably be able to figure out how to escape from a random room, even a highly mobile robot would get confused and waste time looking for doors in nonsensical places like the floors and ceiling.Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 20 Nov. 2024
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The conversation left her confused and gutted — with dozens of questions that could take more than a year to resolve.Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 8 Nov. 2024
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Prepare to bid that unorganized pile of shoes goodbye!Lauren Arzbaecher, Architectural Digest, 24 Oct. 2024
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Virginia Baptists joined the fight in droves. Baptists, Catholics and Jews were not put off by any of the Revolution’s radical deists: a mostly unorganized group of religious thinkers who believed in God and reason, but not revelation or miracles.Adam Jortner, The Conversation, 18 Oct. 2024
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Thus did the conservative loose cannonballs come eventually to dominate the GOP—and define our disordered political era.Daniel Schlozman & Sam Rosenfeld / Made by History, TIME, 10 June 2024
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It is associated with hallucinations, delusions, and extremely disordered thinking and behavior that impairs daily functioning, and can be disabling.Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 21 May 2024
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“Perplexing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perplexing. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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