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as in thwarting
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as in frustrating
to prevent from achieving a goal
the language barrier baffled everyone and discouraged us from attempting another teleconference
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as in puzzling
to throw into a state of mental uncertainty
she was baffled by the wording of the clause in the insurance policy
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Recent Examples of baffling
Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
Your daughter’s rejection of your generosity is baffling.
—Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 12 Oct. 2024
One of the play’s final scenes is even more baffling.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024
Meredith Hagner as Eve, a woman with unbridled ambition, no moral compass to speak of and a baffling love for her yappy dog.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
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Here is perhaps the most baffling fact in Bromham’s paper.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
Your daughter’s rejection of your generosity is baffling.
—Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 12 Oct. 2024
One of the play’s final scenes is even more baffling.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024
Meredith Hagner as Eve, a woman with unbridled ambition, no moral compass to speak of and a baffling love for her yappy dog.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for baffling
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Making sense of what the affable and passionate Che is up to at his tiny restaurant can be perplexing.Matthew Odam, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Nov. 2024
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Pope No position encapsulates Newcastle’s perplexing summer better than the incomplete reshuffling of the goalkeeper department.Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 14 Aug. 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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But with crucial deadlines and the land deal itself hanging in the balance, the county’s apparent lack of movement was a source of frustration at Tuesday’s supervisors meeting.Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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Voter frustrations with the economy and immigration are fueling Trump’s slight advantage among Arizona voters.Stephanie Murray, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
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The second thing is that military strategy and ultimately political strategy have evolved from at first being fundamentally reactive to the initial Hamas attack, from the imperative to restore Israeli deterrence and to punish Hamas.Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
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But from the air over Lebanon, Israel can now seemingly bomb at will; whatever deterrence previously existed has broken down.Sam Heller, TIME, 5 Oct. 2024
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So the Olympics, okay, that’s checkmate, that’s the moment an athlete dreams about.Simmone Shah, TIME, 3 Aug. 2024
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Perhaps then, there will be a vibe shift in the workplace next year with a clear winner who turns the stalemate into a checkmate.Jane Thier, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2023
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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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“Baffling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baffling. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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