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His Waynesburg pitching coach, Perry Cunningham, was frequently frustrated with what he thought was Miller’s unwillingness to put in the necessary work in the weight room to improve his strength and perplexingly poor stamina.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

While intended to capture the sun-soaked sleaze of a B-movie noir, “Honey Don’t!” is a perplexingly plotted whodunit that delivers the “who” but none of the “why.”

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2025

Men’s tailors advertised nifty new coats for the event, department stores ran “aviation sales” on, perplexingly, lace and coral dinner rings.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2023

“If you have 152 minutes to sink into this morass of moral complexity and finely observed period detail,” the Guardian writes, “then it may well be worth it, although the ending is bizarrely, perplexingly abrupt.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 28, 2021

Even more perplexingly, only a single item of jewelry had been taken each time.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day