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Recent Examples of perplexity The performances, too, are more likenesses than full characterizations, which, admittedly, is wholly in keeping with the perplexities being dramatized. Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024 Gratitude isn’t obviously a concept capable of generating such perplexities. Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2024 The performances, too, are more likenesses than full characterizations, which, admittedly, is wholly in keeping with the perplexities being dramatized. Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024 And that perplexity surrounding coverage may get more complicated. Kff Health News, The Mercury News, 17 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for perplexity
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Noun
  • For potential patients, this information overload—and the social baggage that comes with it—often creates more confusion than clarity.
    Christy Saia-Owenby, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • The juror also explained brief confusion Wednesday afternoon that arose out of a verdict that jurors later retracted before it was read in court.
    Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • Navigating a business through economic uncertainty can feel like driving at night on an unfamiliar road as the fog rolls in.
    Anita Nelson, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
  • An international team of astronomers now suggests this signal could be used to determine how light from the first stars interacted with this cosmic fog, helping to lift it.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 June 2025

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“Perplexity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perplexity. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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