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Since his homecoming—and hospitalization—Seymour has bewildered and occasionally frightened everyone he comes in contact with, except Sybil, a little girl he encounters who is enchanted by his banter and off-kilter stories.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

This has bewildered traders from more than 30,000 businesses who have come to the annual fair to show off their goods in several exhibition halls the size of 200 football pitches.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2025

The vocal opposition has bewildered community observers who saw their hospital as the last place they would encounter vaccine resistance, only for it to become its most visible battleground.

From Washington Post • Aug. 13, 2021

The migration of youths from seemingly stable and prosperous communities to fight with radical Islamists has bewildered not only their families but governments and security forces throughout Europe.

From The New Yorker • May 25, 2015

The vapor, the influence of that brute force,—it has bewildered me and obscured my perception.

From Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel