baffle
verb (used with object)
to confuse, bewilder, or perplex.
has been baffling
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present perfect progressiveof baffle (3rd person singular).present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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The emergence of that pitch elevated Yesavage into a first-rounder, and he has been baffling hitters with it ever since.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
The lack of prosecution always has been baffling, and it remains so.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2021
“So to have a security hold on her case has been baffling and confusing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2020
Now Criterion has come out with Resnais’s subsequent film, “Muriel, or The Time of Return,” which has been baffling people since it showed at the first New York Film Festival, in 1963.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 3, 2017
A light before their eyes throws light upon the enigma that has been baffling their brains.
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Mayne Reid
