perplex

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• She perplexed record labels that weren’t sure what category to put her in.

• I heard nothing, and I am somewhat hurt and perplexed by this.

• However, cases are still surging across the country, a new variant continues to perplex researchers, and vaccines are rolling out at a slower than optimal pace.

• Even people who have arrived at the Vatican wearing masks remove them when meeting with the pontiff, in a practice that has perplexed outsiders and caused concern among some Vatican officials.

• It perplexes me that some of the questions I have most often been asked about dogs, and that I have about my own dog, are not addressed by research.

• Two-thirds of my life are already gone; why, then, should I perplex myself so much about the remainder?

• "I don't want to perplex you, but I have done something," said Nick, getting up.

• I should have lived only to worry and perplex him, and something in me tells me this is right.'

• The first questions must never perplex or embarrass the pupil, for they are very important.

• But a trouble weigh'd upon her,And perplex'd her, night and morn, With the burden of an honorUnto which she was not born.