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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
bewilder .
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Examples
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Suffice it to say here that this triple enigma is as comforting as wine and open as an English fireside; that this thing that bewilders the intellect utterly quiets the heart: but out of the desert, from the dry places and, the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world.
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Harry Potter leaves me cold, the Twilight phenom bewilders me, and so many of the other chart-topping series just seem like the same thing over and over and over again.
MIND MELD: Books We Love That Everyone Else Hates (and Vice Versa) 2010
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This cognitive dissonance bewilders the countries we like to believe admire us and our way of life.
Barbara Crafton: The Death Penalty Is America's Blind Spot Barbara Crafton 2011
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The maids two of whom are narrators describe at length their cleaning routines, cooking schedules and ironing techniques, all of which makes for a kind of prose that bewilders men and enchants women.
The Secret of 'The Help': Envy Caitlin Flanagan 2011
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This cognitive dissonance bewilders the countries we like to believe admire us and our way of life.
Barbara Crafton: The Death Penalty Is America's Blind Spot Barbara Crafton 2011
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I don't mean only to myself; it's frequently obvious that my charm exhausts and bewilders others, even as they depend upon it to mortar crevices in the social facade -- to fill vacant seats, give air to suffocating silences, fudge unease.
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Buzz, in general, bugs and bewilders me (and leads to alliteration, apparently), but what is the crux of the matter?
Blogs and buzz Roger Sutton 2009
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They can get better recipes to make popcorn, how they can screw up popcorn so bad bewilders me.
Global Voices in English » Kuwait: Cinema Censorship, Quality Woes and Limited Telecom Services 2009
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Why she continues to receive press coverage bewilders me – unless it's because the press enjoys showing what an uneducated and unintelligent person she is!
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This cognitive dissonance bewilders the countries we like to believe admire us and our way of life.
Barbara Crafton: The Death Penalty Is America's Blind Spot Barbara Crafton 2011
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