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Recent Examples of puzzlement Sandie Yeaman, of Omaha, Nebraska, expressed puzzlement at the connection. Scott McFetridge, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2025 The murder mystery exists at the intersection of Elsbeth and Shondaland’s other White House show, Scandal, combining political intrigue with parlor-room puzzlement—and that parlor happens to be located in the most famous house in America. Scarlett Harris, Architectural Digest, 3 Apr. 2025 In recent interviews, Selzer expressed dismay and continuing puzzlement. James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024 Many progressives expressed puzzlement at how the party had failed to conduct a proper autopsy on the last election cycle. William Lambers, Newsweek, 9 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for puzzlement
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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 pressure comes as confusion swirls around whether President Trump will exempt some businesses from efforts to arrest and deport immigrants living illegally in the United States.
    Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • With the entire dataset open to the public, the team hopes the fresh eyes, as well as graduate and undergraduate astronomers, will uncover something new and unlock clues about cosmic mysteries like dark matter and the physics of the early universe.
    Jay Kakade June 22, New Atlas, 22 June 2025
  • But two new studies — which researchers say are among the biggest paleoanthropology papers of the year — detail how scientists were able to extract genetic material from the fossil and help unravel this biological mystery.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The judge’s tone is one of bewilderment because these circumstances are indeed bewildering, and no doubt would be to the Founding Fathers who expressly rejected monarchy and established a system of government where the citizenry would be free to express its discontent at government policies.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 15 June 2025
  • There was a palpable mix of shock and bewilderment in the loss, and even confidence in the Leafs’ chances ahead in Game 6.
    Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 15 May 2025

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“Puzzlement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puzzlement. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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