baffle
verb (used with object)
to confuse, bewilder, or perplex.
Example Sentences
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Giant steel pipe’s mysterious overnight growth spurt baffles a Japanese city.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026
“Sometimes it baffles us,” said chief prosecutor Hsing Tai-chao.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
The version of America to which they return, where rideshares and all-gender bathrooms are now the norm, baffles them.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2025
"Liver donation is something that's not really spoken about and that's the bit that baffles me," she said.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2025
It’s a blind spot that baffles local and international human rights groups.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
