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as in to frustrate
to prevent from achieving a goal
the language barrier baffled everyone and discouraged us from attempting another teleconference
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as in to perplex
to throw into a state of mental uncertainty
she was baffled by the wording of the clause in the insurance policy
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as in frustrating
to prevent from achieving a goal
the language barrier baffled everyone and discouraged us from attempting another teleconference
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as in puzzling
to throw into a state of mental uncertainty
she was baffled by the wording of the clause in the insurance policy
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as in perplexing
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as in thwarting
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Recent Examples of baffle
Camila Pedrosa, Sacramento Bee, 21 Mar. 2025
The 3-inch down topper has a 750-fill power which is distributed evenly with a three-dimensional baffle box stitching and encased in a cotton sateen shell.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 19 Mar. 2025
Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
Not helping matters is the story’s baffling (sometimes, annoying) sense of humor, actively working against the big, bold, beautiful life lessons the movie desperately attempts to prescribe.
—Tomris Laffly, Variety, 16 Sep. 2025
Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 22 Sep. 2025
Another factor that may baffle outsiders is a reluctance to use air conditioners at home.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
In the last few years, researchers have stumbled upon baffling signals from deep space, uncovered strange features hiding beneath our oceans, and found clues that hint at life’s secrets on other worlds.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
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Verb
There was debris on a plastic baffle plate inside the ice machine.
—Camila Pedrosa, Sacramento Bee, 21 Mar. 2025
The 3-inch down topper has a 750-fill power which is distributed evenly with a three-dimensional baffle box stitching and encased in a cotton sateen shell.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 19 Mar. 2025
Verb
Their paradise home transformed into a fortress surrounded by armed guards, but one of them still ended up murdered by gunshot, leading to a baffling mystery.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
Not helping matters is the story’s baffling (sometimes, annoying) sense of humor, actively working against the big, bold, beautiful life lessons the movie desperately attempts to prescribe.
—Tomris Laffly, Variety, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
Over the past 150 years, many knot theorists have been baffled by the unknotting number.
—Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 22 Sep. 2025
Another factor that may baffle outsiders is a reluctance to use air conditioners at home.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
This is stuttering, crashing and other issues, even on high-end hardware way above recommended specs, which is baffling some.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
In the last few years, researchers have stumbled upon baffling signals from deep space, uncovered strange features hiding beneath our oceans, and found clues that hint at life’s secrets on other worlds.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for baffle
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The phenomenon is called seasonal asynchrony, and a new study finds these perplexing locations appear in tropical mountains of countries like Costa Rica as well as places like California that have Mediterranean climates.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
22 Sep. 2025
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The Quiz In one of the more perplexing acquisitions this year, early 2000s music sharing platform LimeWire acquired the rights to the infamous Fyre Festival in an auction this week.—
Maggie McGrath,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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And perhaps the most puzzling question — why is Mark Wahlberg a movie star?—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
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Another puzzling result dipped the Green Bay Packers to +750, good for third in the odds.—
Scott Phillips,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Most intriguing is how these groups will be submitted among the rock, metal and alternative categories, distinctions that only get more confusing as time marches on.—
Alan Light,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Oct. 2025
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Annie and Nick Annie and Nick's path to getting engaged was winding and confusing.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Oct. 2025
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Tuesday will go down as one of Boston’s most confounding losses of the season, a 4-3 defeat in 11 innings to the Baltimore Orioles in which the club went 0 for 13 with runners in scoring position.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
22 Aug. 2025
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Inflation remains stubbornly high and the economic outlook subdued, frustrating efforts to repair tattered public services and ease the cost of living.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
29 Sep. 2025
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Bare patches dotting an otherwise green lawn can be frustrating.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
29 Sep. 2025
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Over the course of a few hours in Washington on Tuesday, the increasingly muddled state of public health unfolded.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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This is an impossible task – partly due to Trump’s own muddled thinking – but most importantly, because Putin does not want peace.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The bewildering story of John Bender, a young Wall Street genius whose dream of life in a mansion sanctuary in the Costa Rican jungle turned sour, is set to launch as a podcast.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
25 Sep. 2025
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This affair is just another example of Adam’s bewildering emotional immaturity.—
Sarah John,
Vulture,
24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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If your files are disorganized, your workflows are ad-hoc, or your code is messy, the AI tools have a very small and chaotic surface area to work with.—
Marco Argenti,
Time,
2 Oct. 2025
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The trough is producing a large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms and could gradually develop, according to the NHC.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Baffle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baffle. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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