as in confusion
a state of mental uncertainty
seeing her perplexity, the teacher stepped in with a helpful hint
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Recent Examples of perplexity
But as her shell cracks, Dern moves from perplexity to anguish to incandescent rage, never once overplaying her hand.
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Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 8 May 2024
For one dataset, the original model had a perplexity of around 5, and the BiLLM version scored around 15, much better than the closest binarization competitor, which scored around 37 (for perplexity, lower numbers are better).
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2024
The result is an urban intelligentsia that regards rural, working-class voters with perplexity and pious disappointment.
—Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
The three friends approached the world’s perplexities with an intellectual eye.
—Rozina Ali, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
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Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 8 May 2024
For one dataset, the original model had a perplexity of around 5, and the BiLLM version scored around 15, much better than the closest binarization competitor, which scored around 37 (for perplexity, lower numbers are better).
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2024
The result is an urban intelligentsia that regards rural, working-class voters with perplexity and pious disappointment.
—Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
The three friends approached the world’s perplexities with an intellectual eye.
—Rozina Ali, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
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“Perplexity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perplexity. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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