perplexes

present tense third-person singular of perplex

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for perplexes
Verb
  • Military life, with its relocations and uncertainties, often complicates access to consistent care.
    Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Meanwhile, in Central Asia, banks collaborate easily with e-commerce and telecom companies to create seamless customer experiences, a practice that GDPR often complicates in Europe.
    Yerik Aubakirov, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Wedged in the far southeastern corner of the bottom of the continent, between South Africa and Mozambique, Eswatini is the last absolute monarchy in Africa, a status that bewilders modernizers and beguiles traditionalists.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • And so an urban tunnel not only blocks some satellites, but confuses the listeners as to which are direct or reflected signals.
    Steve Tengler, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • One case that still baffles is the macabre story of Virginia McCullough, who killed her parents for their money – and then lived with their bodies for four years.
    KC Baker, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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“Perplexes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perplexes. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.

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