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Recent Examples of bewilderment When that turned into mass annihilation, the most frequent Israeli excuse was the population’s state of shock, trauma, exhaustion and bewilderment, the sensation of being under threat from outsiders and in imminent danger. Uriel Kon september 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025 Plans were met with questions, reservations, rejection, bewilderment, violence, and, more recently, a yawn. Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025 Ruben Amorim furrowed his brow in complete bewilderment. Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2025 In the sketches, which have racked up millions upon millions of views, Ketai overaccentuates Gadot’s singsongy Israeli accent but also seems to be processing human emotion for the very first time with wide-eyed bewilderment. David MacK, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bewilderment
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Noun
  • The very concept of combining social media with AI assistants caused confusion earlier this year.
    Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
  • That confusion is further reflected by the manic hyper-subjectivity of Bronstein’s filmmaking, which boxes Linda into a close-up so tight that everything around her — especially her unnamed daughter, who almost never appears on screen — might as well be a disembodied echo of her own anxiety.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Defense Secretary, meanwhile, vanishes into a personal fog, thinking only of his daughter (Kaitlyn Dever), who lives in Chicago.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Particularly in the case of the latter two galaxies, the radio jets seem to be interacting with the intra-cluster medium, which is a thick fog of hot plasma that fills galaxy clusters, and this interaction is shaping both the jets and the radio rings.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Bewilderment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bewilderment. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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