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puzzling

If something is puzzling, then it doesn't make sense or is confusing. He found her sudden disappearance to be puzzling.

puzzling

(= enigmatic) not clear to the understanding I didn't grasp the meaning of that enigmatic comment until much later prophetic texts so enigmatic that their meaning has been disputed for centuries (= confusing, perplexing) lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity sent confusing signals to Iraq perplexing to someone who knew nothing about it a puzzling statement

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This is puzzling.

Movie subtitles

You're very puzzling, Mr. Darcy.
A very puzzling fellow.
It is the final retreat that makes everything so puzzling.
Recently, I have turned up some rather puzzling indications.
I admit I find your behavior puzzling.
It's a puzzling case, Mrs. Holmwood.
Mary has told her grandmother that certain things at school have been puzzling you girls, you in particular.
I've been puzzling for a means to take the strut out of you, you posturing snob.
Always puzzling over something - No Filip, I want you to hear it!
It's most puzzling.
No, it's most puzzling of course, but now don't know what's behind those doors.
Hah, it's, it's most puzzling, it's a big mystery my boy, come along.
Yes, with one difference, which is puzzling but relieving.
Yes, it is pretty puzzling. What do you think, professor Karan?
I want to settle something thats been puzzling me.
A very puzzling fellow. What sort is he?
Seems very puzzling.
You've answered so many questions that have been puzzling me, Mr Randolph.
Recently, I have turned up some rather puzzling indications that in those final days before their annihilation the Krell had been applying their entire racial energies to a new project.
Isn't it puzzling and confusing?
Yes, it is pretty puzzling.
Yes it's puzzling.
It's puzzling. I remember my third birthday.
Why weren't they? That's what's puzzling.
What is puzzling you, captain?
A puzzling phenomenon.
It's still puzzling me.
A very puzzling fellow, this Rick.
This figure's been puzzling me.
Something's been puzzling me.
Yes. With one difference, which is puzzling, but relieving.
Though the arrival of the horse is a little puzzling.
A most puzzling phenomenon, captain, I shall have to study it further.
It is puzzling but it makes our prices less competitive.
But his behavior is quite puzzling.
Puzzling.
Things could be much more puzzling, you know.
No, no, there's no danger. Although it's puzzling.
It's very puzzling.

News and current affairs

This seems all the more puzzling because Americans realize how badly Europe needs new immigrants, given its extremely low fertility rates.
Nevertheless, the decision of Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, to request an arrest warrant against al-Bashir is puzzling, for three reasons.
This island of central planning in the midst of the market economy was a strange and puzzling feature - all the more so because so few remarked how strange it was.
What, then, accounts for the puzzling lack of real growth over the past 25 years?
And, at least for the advanced economies, it has become a particularly puzzling one.
Weak economic performance in these countries is even more puzzling in view of the sharp drop in their birthrates decades ago.
In fact, it would be puzzling if this were not the case, given that nationalism is the cultural foundation of modernity - the framework of its social consciousness.
But in Germany, the data seem to suggest a puzzling fact: the old save until their final days.
The puzzling thing is that this is not the first time either country has veered into an economic cul-de-sac.
The objections coming from universities are more puzzling, as it is in their long-term interest to conduct research ethically.
People are still puzzling over the reasons for other major market upturns (1933, 1982, etc.).
This is a puzzling statement at best.
At first, this seems puzzling, because they should have an incentive to move to the vote-rich middle.
The puzzling circumstances of the IMF head's sudden departure announcement do not justify a business as usual approach to his replacement.
Given past experiences with such bubbles, these policy mistakes are puzzling.
China's central government has the power to rein in its local chieftains, so its failure to do so in Tibet is puzzling.
But thinkers like Friedman leave an ambiguous and puzzling legacy, because it is the interventionists who have succeeded in economic history, where it really matters.
Given Putinism's uncertain ideological roots, this turn toward Russia might seem puzzling.
It is more puzzling that some multinational corporations are also opposed.
Even failures to explain puzzling data are essential to the scientific process, with the challenges that data pose encouraging creative individuals to develop new ways of thinking about physical reality.
Indeed, at a time when restricting access to short-term international funds has acquired intellectual respectability, the government's reluctance to enforce curbs has been puzzling.
Chinese leaders embraced 1989's most puzzling legacy. They recoiled at the Soviet bloc's disintegration.
But it is puzzling only if we characterize Asia as being multi-polar rather than hierarchical.

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