have perplexed
- present perfect of perplex.
Example Sentences
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If it succeeds, Axiom might just crack problems that have perplexed mere humans for centuries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
The implications of that ruling have perplexed lower courts across the country and spurred a raft of legal challenges, in Washington and elsewhere, to gun safety laws.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2024
These fundamental questions of agency -- acting with purpose -- have perplexed some of the greatest minds in history including Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Erwin Schrödinger and Niels Bohr.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2023
The drifting mats of seaweed have perplexed naturalists and sailors for centuries.
From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2023
His countenance, too, might have perplexed a fortune-teller.
From Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
