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
Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 7 Feb. 2025
Equally perplexing, the president’s tax plan ignores the well-being of these same families and their children.
—Bruce Fuller, Baltimore Sun, 6 Feb. 2025
The perplexing question of Greenland illustrates the inversion of populism that Trump represents.
—Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Although perplexing from an outsider’s view in regard to a star player such as Banchero, the Magic were aware that his skills might not click in right away upon his return.
—Jason Beede, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2025
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Adjective
Every little facet of their lives becomes a perplexing anthropological study, an affirmation to older people that youth is wasted on the young.
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Most baffling of all, Ye claimed that fake children had been installed in his home to corrupt his children.—
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Then the other baffling interaction of the episode happens.—
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Researchers are particularly focused on unraveling the puzzling interplay between gas content, magma pressure and lava flow dynamics.—
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Almost two years into his ordeal, Gould learned of an initiative at the National Institutes of Health that focuses on solving the country’s most puzzling medical cases.—
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Tied 1-1 midway through the second period against a Finland team frustrating and stifling the Americans, head coach Mike Sullivan swapped Kyle Connor with Brady Tkachuk on a line with Matthew Tkachuk and Jack Eichel.—
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Unfortunately, the setup process is frustrating compared with the competition, as are the site-building tools.—
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Sterling is both a blank slate, a character beginning a new phase of his life, and someone who’s facing a bewildering number of options, including sticking around, leaving town or returning to a life of crime.—
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That car heist unleashed a bewildering series of encounters.—
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Emily Keeney Dated or disorganized houses become functional, fresh homes in the hands of Drift Interiors + Architecture.—
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To mix metaphors as badly as this doc overcomplicates Combs’ case by tackling the topic too early and from too many angles, this research is so disorganized that the story resembles something akin to deranged lobbyists throwing spaghetti at the wall through a shotgun.—
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For many, the frenetic nature of the firings has left them confused – and even days later – without a full accounting of their termination.—
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Build your strategy around results Showing up to your laptop without a plan will leave you confused, tired and unsure about the next step.—
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At Vintage Frills, unorganized shelves, racks bursting with thousands of random pieces, and having to browse through mountains of fast fashion clothes bought last year—that, naturally, someone threw away when trends changed—are a thing of the past.—
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That, in turn, could help businesses sort through troves of messy unorganized datasets faster and find patterns and data points to help make decisions.—
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In the past, Jamil has openly discussed her own journey recovering from anorexia and disordered eating.—
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Thus did the conservative loose cannonballs come eventually to dominate the GOP—and define our disordered political era.—
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“Perplexing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perplexing. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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