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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

The correct apostrophe later and perplexingly vanished from the name.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2022

But that, perplexingly, is what “Infinite Storm” feels like: a harrowing, life-or-death story that has been drained of power to score melodramatic points that feel — however true — unearned.

From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2022

In countries with a very cold winter, two decidedly non-Christian elements tended to be intermingled, somewhat perplexingly, with the carol form.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall