Examples of mystification in a Sentence

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Recent Examples on the Web There’s a sort of indifference that turns into mystification that turns into sadness around that. — New York Times, 8 July 2022 As with other elements of a mega-celebrity’s life, a front-facing, pathbreaking pregnancy like Rihanna’s necessitates a certain level of mystification of the pains taken behind the scenes. — The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2022 The December 1941 attacks are the subject of considerable mystification in the United States. — Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2022 There has been some mystification in Washington as to why administration successes have not registered more. — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 11 Feb. 2022 One interviewee, a teenager at the time of the festival, expresses mystification at having evolved from a mild-mannered kid to a destructive Lord of the Flies character over the course of the weekend. — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 27 July 2021 On Twitter, users have expressed shock and mystification over the design. — Marc Bain, Quartz, 9 June 2021 John Berger’s idea of ‘mystification,’ for example, describes how the ‘original’ upholds ‘ideological interests of the ruling class’ through arcane ways of emphasizing technique. — Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes, 13 May 2021 But, as British viewers found to their mystification, American TV eagerly advertises pharmaceutical remedies for practically every other imaginable human condition. — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2021 See More

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