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
Among them is Clarence Willard, billed in a 1920s Vaudeville advertisement as “the man who grows” and “completely baffles all medical and scientific experts.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
“It baffles all of us as animal lovers. Who could do this?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2025
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
At the same time, it can’t be so complex that the first time around it baffles the children and turns them off.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
