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the change in policy seems to have bewildered many of our customers
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Recent Examples of bewildering
Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2025
The John Cena of Carol’s timeline is the same John Cena as our timeline, which makes the other aspects of Carol’s world so much more jarring and bewildering.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
Its ginormous investments in higher-value, tech-heavy sectors from smartphones to autos to semiconductors to biotechnology are disrupting the global landscape at bewildering speed.
—William Pesek, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
Soon, online discussion of the album turned extreme in ways that many found bewildering.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2025
The John Cena of Carol’s timeline is the same John Cena as our timeline, which makes the other aspects of Carol’s world so much more jarring and bewildering.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
Verb
And aren’t our real-life romantic complications bewildering enough?
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
Its ginormous investments in higher-value, tech-heavy sectors from smartphones to autos to semiconductors to biotechnology are disrupting the global landscape at bewildering speed.
—William Pesek, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bewildering
Adjective
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Hippocrates bases his explanation of epilepsy, that most perplexing of illnesses, on observation.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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That makes the decision to pull back on that ice time in the second period and again in overtime all the more perplexing.—
Vincent Z. Mercogliano,
New York Times,
27 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The pilot of a private jet reportedly made an eerie discovery while flying thousands of feet over Rhode Island, marking the latest in unexplained encounters baffling both experts and civilians alike.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
22 Dec. 2025
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From financial wipeouts to baffling misreads of beloved source material, some of Hollywood’s most notorious flops began as video games.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
19 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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As an avalanche and dead bodies ratchet up the suspense, Zach must lean on his mother’s wisdom to fight for his life while deciphering a confusing undercurrent of danger, violence and betrayal among the survivors.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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Yeah, this is pretty confusing on the surface.—
Jesse Newell,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2026
Verb
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This Upper Paleolithic burial even became famous, though puzzling to researchers, because the unusual skeletal remains were even disfigured.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Jan. 2026
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But in recent years, Betelgeuse has thrown astronomers a few puzzling curveballs that have required serious detective work to solve.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
20 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The Eagles were a confounding defending champion throughout the regular season.—
Jeff Howe,
New York Times,
5 Jan. 2026
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What is the most confounding and terrible, however, is Gretchen’s assertion that Slade, the anti-Viagra, doesn’t get involved with the women on his own accord, but only engages because the women always talk about him.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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True coffee enthusiasts know that a good coffee grinder plays a huge role in the extraction process and preventing a muddled flavor.—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
24 Jan. 2026
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Tonight, Bluebland’s glasses reflect a muddled crowd.—
Joe Sills,
Forbes.com,
17 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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In his own work, the Governor has sought to smooth corners, frustrating some organizers.—
Nathan Heller,
New Yorker,
1 Feb. 2026
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Few dynamics in tennis are more frustrating than earning chances to break an opponent and then not even being able to start a point, especially in a major final.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
31 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The black-and-white images of the 350 GT, Miura, and Countach being hand-built here—often at a rate of less than one car per day—are wonderfully evocative, but the assembly hall also looks dusty and disorganized.—
Tim Pitt,
Robb Report,
28 Jan. 2026
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One internal Google presentation, which is undated, conceded that using YouTube for learning is hard because the platform is distracting and disorganized.—
Tyler Kingkade,
NBC news,
23 Jan. 2026
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“Bewildering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bewildering. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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