Example Sentences

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The performances, too, are more likenesses than full characterizations, which, admittedly, is wholly in keeping with the perplexities being dramatized.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2024

The paper focuses, as Kripke puts in, on “the perplexities some philosophers have felt concerning the simple first person pronoun ‘I’.”

From Scientific American • Aug. 17, 2019

Stephenson carefully lays out the perplexities of this situation.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2019

It is as though Klint spent the rest of her life trying to square her early visionary clarity with life’s ensuing perplexities.

From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2018

In the meantime Mr. Pocket grew greyer, and tried oftener to lift himself out of his perplexities by the hair.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens