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
“It baffles all of us as animal lovers. Who could do this?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2025
Yet still he baffles and wrongfoots people, both opponents and more neutral observers, political professionals and voters, Americans and foreigners.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2025
After bringing the RTG into the Hab, I very carefully glued some tubing around the heat baffles.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
