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bewildering

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verb

present participle of bewilder

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of bewildering
Adjective
In one of the more bewildering sequences of the season, Westbrook somehow beat the 7-footer to the ball again. Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 9 Jan. 2025 To see the sudden end of something that we had been told would last forever was bewildering—liberating and alarming in equal measure. Ivan Krastev, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2025 Its multimedia system responds well to quick taps, although the layout can be quite bewildering at first if you're not used to Skoda products. Matthew MacConnell, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025 But, given the complex ubiquity of Dylan’s music and life story, the movie’s synthetic simplicity is bewildering. The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for bewildering 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bewildering
Adjective
  • With new mysteries such as dark matter, dark energy, the search for a quantum theory of gravity, the Hubble tension and the cause of the Big Bang all perplexing physicists, now would be a great time for another transformation in science akin to that of a century ago.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The pavilion’s perplexing parent company, yeswetrust, seemed to offer everything from crypto to Thai real estate to daily incentives to meditate, drink water, and breathe.
    Caitlín Doherty, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Other than Notre Dame’s baffling performances in the Cayman Islands against TCU and Utah, the Big 12 didn’t have many marquee victories in nonconference play.
    Sabreena Merchant, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
  • This decision is a baffling swerve for a celebrity biopic, one that will probably keep it from becoming an out-and-out sensation.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Researchers are particularly focused on unraveling the puzzling interplay between gas content, magma pressure and lava flow dynamics.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Almost two years into his ordeal, Gould learned of an initiative at the National Institutes of Health that focuses on solving the country’s most puzzling medical cases.
    Jason Liebowitz, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • With the loss to Boston, Kerr's Warriors fell to a frustrating 21-21 record on the season, good for just the No. 11 seed in a competitive Western Conference.
    Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Reinhart has been facing this frustrating situation privately, but decided to share it publicly now for a very personal reason: At the time of this interview, her grandmother had recently been diagnosed with stage IV ovarian cancer.
    Julia Sullivan, SELF, 22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The essential insights and information quality data provides can be diluted or even distorted when a company is drowning in disorganized, irrelevant or duplicated data.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Overflowing, disorganized closets are an all too common problem, and so are ones that have undergone a big organization effort to no avail.
    Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • The numbers in these early examples may be small, but as labor unions continue to expand their reach into previously unorganized sectors, expect to see a greater emphasis on fair pay, better working conditions, and broader social benefits for workers.
    Aparna Rae, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Bathrooms that appear messy or unorganized often have products in them that don't belong in a bathroom.
    Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Those friends are now left angry, confused and with a stinging loss.
    Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Many customers are confused about high-yield savings Confusion abounds.
    Daniel de Visé, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The book is a disjointed, experimental compilation of an unnamed man’s variegated erotic fantasies.
    Victoria Uren, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
  • No one should be too surprised if DJ Uiagalelei and the new-look offense are a bit disjointed in their first game together.
    Stewart Mandel, The Athletic, 24 July 2024

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