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bewilderment

How to use bewilderment in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for bewilderment.

Editorial note

You're in a state of flux between delight and bewilderment.

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Quick take

confusion resulting from failure to understand

Meaning at a glance

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noun

confusion resulting from failure to understand

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for bewilderment.

Example sentences

1

You're in a state of flux between delight and bewilderment.

2

I am always in constant bewilderment at how galling some of these corporate crimes are. How does one even go about planning these?

3

Kind of bewilderment. So instead of exposing and handling the hard truth, it is easy to bury it, stick fingers in the ears and say "la-la-la, I am not hearing you, &;&."

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I see utter bewilderment as I try to explain to my peers what they difference between RT and the bog standard Windows 8. Usually they get bored and wish they hadn't asked the question.

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Org/wiki/Julius_Rosenberg Reading over the BBC's timeline of the Assange case really leaves one in a state of bewilderment. The "rape" story was shared with between two women and then with a journalist?

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Normal" people are not only not trained that they should keep upgrading lest they perish; they will ask you with bewilderment, "why I'm supposed to throw away that perfectly working machine after only 3 years?" .

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This, much to the bewilderment and bafflement of students thereafter! mwahahaha!

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If they were married, with children or had some undying level of commitment, I could see some bewilderment. So far it just seems incredibly logical and reasonable she would stay behind, on both their parts.

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This a recipe for bewilderment. I still feel that Microsoft would have been much better off developing a tablet version of windows phone 8 rather than extending the desktop down to the tablet market.

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As time goes on, my bafflement at our collective need to swear allegiance to our tools is turning into bewilderment. Our tools have objective, technical merits and flaws, but our love and hate for them is subjective and mostly useless.

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\nCheney even went out and made several speeches saying the link was substantial to the bewilderment of CIA.\nIn truth, no significant link was ever found.

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In the first, bewilderment, you are uncomfortable because somebody fails to conform to your existing boxes. You may have a much more interesting and nuanced set of boxes than the average person.

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The worst part for me was Mixpanel teams total bewilderment as to why anybody would want either additional time axes OR future timestamps. Guys your service really shows promise for building a fast and simple to use analytics.

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It's challenging, where "challenging" means that it requires living with some bewilderment and frustration while reading it. And anyone who is not as smart and knowledgeable as Knuth will probably experience both to some degree because what makes tAoCP great is that Knuth doesn't dumb anything down.

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Words cannot express my bewilderment when otherwise intelligent people argue that this is for the benefit for our country. India's solution to solving problems is to assume that its citizens are criminals, and that more monitoring will help.

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Com/lw/r5/the_quantum_physics_sequence/ One line that particularly stuck with me is: "Dragging a modern-day student through all this may be a historically realistic approach to the subject matter, but it also ensures the historically realistic outcome of total bewilderment. Talking to aspiring young physicists about 'wave/particle duality' is like starting chemistry students on the Four Elements."

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Amongst all the comments about poorly-understood or unknown micro-nutrients, and whether or not this is healthy in the long run, I see here a sense of bewilderment from some people: fidlefodl : i just hate eating 90% of the time\n\n riffraff : ... why do you hate eating most of the time?

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Fittingly, after expressing bewilderment regarding Angular scoping, Jeswin goes on to divide the world into two camps, declaring membership in "the one which makes me productive with the languages, specs, and standards I already know", which is about the closest thing to a natural language scoping bug I've come across.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use bewilderment in a sentence?

You're in a state of flux between delight and bewilderment.

What does bewilderment mean?

confusion resulting from failure to understand

What part of speech is bewilderment?

bewilderment is commonly used as noun.