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as in baffling
to throw into a state of mental uncertainty
the change in policy seems to have bewildered many of our customers
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Recent Examples of bewildering
E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2024
For Harris’s oldest friends from the Bay Area, who supported her campaigns for San Francisco District Attorney, state Attorney General, U.S. Senator and Vice President, the possibility of a Trump win was bewildering.
—Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
The proud Warriors were failing more often in increasingly bewildering ways, generating a perpetual blame game that was leaning Thompson’s way more than ever before.
—Anthony Slater, The Athletic, 2 July 2024
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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His narrow victory over Lee was bewildering: in the recent history of South Korea, prosecutors were, like the military and the police, tools of dictatorship.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2024
For Harris’s oldest friends from the Bay Area, who supported her campaigns for San Francisco District Attorney, state Attorney General, U.S. Senator and Vice President, the possibility of a Trump win was bewildering.
—Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
The proud Warriors were failing more often in increasingly bewildering ways, generating a perpetual blame game that was leaning Thompson’s way more than ever before.
—Anthony Slater, The Athletic, 2 July 2024
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bewildering
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The bulkiness of cooler weather jackets, coats, sweatshirts, and sweaters combined with the dilemma of hanging them in a closet or folding and placing them in a drawer is perplexing.Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 24 Dec. 2024
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Trump waded into the longtime sore subject Friday, surprising — and perplexing — some lawmakers.Emily Brooks, The Hill, 18 Dec. 2024
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Even following such an uplifting and dominant win, Newcastle’s baffling, up-and-down campaign demands such hesitancy.Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
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Making this even more baffling was the choice not to include Spider-Man himself in these spinoffs, and the choice not to pit any of the villains against one another either.Mark Hughes, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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The recent sightings of puzzling unidentified aircraft in New Jersey and other states have triggered yet another round of unanswered questions — and fueled conspiracy theories.Leonard David, Space.com, 21 Dec. 2024
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Take your puzzling skills in new directions.New York Times, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2024
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However, the past two seasons have been frustrating for Alexander, as injuries have plagued him since his career year in 2022.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
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And yet the overuse of this crutch was frustrating last night, most of all because Short suffered for it.Esther Zuckerman, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2024
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How rude and inconsiderate can people be and even worse how disorganized at Aldi’s.Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Nov. 2024
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Another nightmarish situation for any CIO: A huge corporate investment in generative AI and data that is so disorganized that it cannot be used.Megan Poinski, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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This can mean undergoing a company-wide digital transformation to improve unorganized, outdated processes and products or adopting an open-ecosystem approach to better connect teams and organizations within the company.Walt Hearn, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
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The dominant party in each resulting district controls the primary, which becomes the election, where unorganized moderates either lack the numbers to compete or simply don’t participate.Jim Nowlan, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Nov. 2024
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The 5 Most Effective Ways To Deal With A Toxic Coworker By Alice Gibbs Senior Life and Trends Reporter 0 Ever felt confused about what's expected of you at work or struggled to get a straight answer from your manager?Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
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In a collage of pictures, Bronze can be seen hysterically crying on Santa's lap while holding two candy canes, and Sterling stands beside them looking very confused.Emma Aerin Becker, People.com, 24 Dec. 2024
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The rattled and disjointed offense never got going as the unit ran out of time to erase a growing deficit.Taylor Lyons, Baltimore Sun, 23 Nov. 2024
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Still, the messaging toward these voters has been a little disjointed at times.Philip Eliott / Detroit, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Bewildering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bewildering. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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