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

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

Few creatures in the fossil record have perplexed paleontologists more than the Tully Monster.

From Scientific American • Apr. 19, 2023

The greens at Quail Hollow have perplexed Woods all week.

From Seattle Times • May 5, 2018

Two precious villains—Carbon and Azote— They have perplexed me heretofore; but now The thing is plain enough.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor