as in confusing
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as in baffling
to throw into a state of mental uncertainty
a car shopper thoroughly muddled by too much well-meaning advice
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as in disrupting
to undo the proper order or arrangement of
some mischievous brat had muddled the household accounts
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Both the Russian and Ukrainian militaries have successfully achieved standoff through the use of artillery firepower coupled with drone strikes, effectively disrupting their adversary’s offensive operations.Vikram Mittal, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
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The 50,000 members of the union working at ports from Maine to Texas have been on strike since early Tuesday morning, halting the flow of the majority of containerized imports into the United States, along with many of the exports, disrupting the sales of American businesses overseas.Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
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Your diet beverage is full of a slew of perplexing sugar substitutes, but the regular version has too much sugar to justify drinking it.Andrew Watman, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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These questions have seemed both urgent and perplexing, not only to Ramos but to many others as well; whether Trump will repeat or exceed his performance with Latinos is one of the main unknowns that could determine the outcome of the election.Geraldo Cadava, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2024
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Honorable Mentions My Top Five stays the same as my recent mid-September update, but there was shuffling from #6-10 down the home stretch.Tony Blengino, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
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Meanwhile, storm survivors were still scrounging for food and clean water and shuffling from shelter to shelter three days after Helene first made landfall in Florida.Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2024
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Their stories ranged from unsettling to upsetting—and many of them seemed to circle back to the same person.Lindsay Lee Wallace, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
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Lanier rapes Forsythe during a job interview, which O’Brien recounts in upsetting, unwavering detail.Jared Sullivan, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2024
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The math suggests a dismaying possibility: these votes may very well swing.Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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Amid the meal, the guest made a dismaying discovery.Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 14 Oct. 2024
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Danilo’s performances in the last three games have been bewildering, seemingly making more mistakes in those 270 minutes than he’s done in the previous five years.Emmet Gates, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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The exhibition's geographical reach is truly bewildering, said Alastair Sooke in The Telegraph.The Week UK, theweek, 4 Oct. 2024
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But the turn of events is because of extraordinary circumstances: Andy Dalton, who took over for Young in Week 3, was involved in a multi-vehicle car accident in Charlotte on Tuesday.Andy Scholes, CNN, 24 Oct. 2024
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Founded in 1955, the competition highlights quirky and extraordinary records across various fields.Andrea Lewis, Architectural Digest, 24 Oct. 2024
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Trump’s speeches at rallies, especially of late, are rambling to the point of being incomprehensible.Richard Behar, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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Their contributions to my life are incomprehensible.Emma Madden, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Muddling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muddling. Accessed 20 Nov. 2024.
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