befuddle

A next step is establishing a baseline, indicating whether a standard deep-learning neural net would get befuddled by such a task.

Yet the Water Authority’s own forecasts paint a different picture, showing an increased water demand decades into the future, which befuddled local agencies.

Coach Sean McVay and quarterback Jared Goff were befuddled on that evening by the defensive scheming of Coach Bill Belichick and the Patriots as the Rams lost, 13-3.

I suspect this will buoy liberal spirits, but anger the right and befuddle the independents.