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The insults have "bewildered" Chao, a former administration official still close with the former secretary, told Politico, but she previously declined to respond because it just "creates another news cycle."

From Salon • Jan. 26, 2023

It was the latest in a series of unprecedented nearly back-to-back sandstorms this year that have bewildered residents and raised alarm among experts and officials, who blame climate change and poor governmental regulations.

From Seattle Times • May 23, 2022

At those times I’ve explicitly encouraged her to think about the things she’s saying, which seems to have bewildered her a bit.

From Slate • Oct. 12, 2020

The whipsaw events of recent days have bewildered much of Washington, including some of the people around the president and his attorney general.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2020

Three causes especially have excited our discontent; and, by impelling us to seek for remedies for the irremediable, have bewildered us in a maze of madness and error.

From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Mackay, Charles