J. August Richards

Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!

American Actor

Stella Young

It is nothing short of baffling to me how a city like Melbourne, where I struggle to find accessible facilities on a very regular basis, could be considered the most livable city in the world. I suppose it all depends on what makes a city 'livable' for you.

Australian Comedian

Arthur Lewis

Science affects all our ways of thinking about the world: both the physical world, which, if I may make so bold, is easy to understand because it is regular and follows simple laws, and also the social world, which is more baffling and less predictable.

Leigh-Anne Pinnock

Our mums came on tour and mine was baffled by it all. She kept saying in the car: 'You just do this on your own? Don't you want to be with people? This is so lonely!' I guess we're just used to it. It is a funny little world.

English Singer

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of and think about and see in the night sky through a telescope: four percent of the universe.

American Scientist

Prince Charles

It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything - until, that is, it comes to climate science.

English Royalty

Hozier

Truth be told, I'm not all that comfortable with celebrity culture. That was always something that baffled me, the obsession over fame. I don't think that's a reason why anyone should get into making music.

Irish Musician

Sophie Dahl

Modelling is a bit baffling when you're 18. I just thought, 'Brilliant - I get paid lots of money to walk down a runway.' I didn't think I was signing up to be a poster girl for anything.

English Model

G. Willow Wilson

Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.

American Writer

Andrew O'Hagan

The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.

Scottish Novelist

Use 'baffle' when something is so confusing it's hard to make sense of.

Unexpected Situations

'Baffle' implies being puzzled deeply, more than just being momentarily surprised.

Not Just Surprised

When 'baffled,' a person often feels a mix of surprise and frustration.

Emotional Response

Use 'baffle' to describe efforts being blocked or challenged, especially in a competitive situation.

Conflict Scenarios

'Baffle' can suggest there is a deliberate attempt to prevent or interfere with progress.

Impediment

In engineering, a 'baffle' is a physical object that controls the flow of something.

Technical Restraint

Baffles are often used to manage noise, directing or reducing sound waves.

Sound Control

A baffle's design and materials depend on its specific use, whether for gas, light, or sound.

Function Specific

 This process could potentially lead to uncontrolled growth and tumor formation. But axolotls are remarkably resistant to cancer. They have a system in place that tightly controls cellular proliferation. To better understand the axolotl’s baffling biology, scientists sequenced its genome.

Axolotls: The...

 is literally infinite, and that it contains an infinite number of so-called pocket universes with varying properties. How's your brain doing? But quantum theory adds a whole new wrinkle. I mean, the theory's been proven true beyond all doubt, but interpreting it is baffling.

How many universes are...

 DNA tests are great at answering some questions, like who your parents are, but can provide baffling results to others, like whether you have ancestors from a particular region. To understand why, it helps to know where our DNA comes from in the first place.

What can DNA tests...

 We learned that planes can withstand forces many times larger. So my husband feels safe flying. He seems genuinely baffled by how anyone could feel otherwise. I get that concept, but only in the abstract. I've never been able to fly the same way since.

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 and that it contains an infinite number of so-called pocket universes with varying properties. How's your brain doing? Quantum theory adds a whole new wrinkle. I mean, the theory's been proven true beyond all doubt, but interpreting it is baffling,

Questions No One Knows...

 speechless so he must like my baffle before the look so he turns to the crowd and he says poor lady she has no man to take care of her I will help her so he explains to me you take the car actually

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 naturally the otter appears baffled he set out to get a fish dinner and instead he seems to be playing a ball game the irony here is that the puffer is protecting both of them

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 How a spider, no bigger than a thumbnail, can produce so much silk so quickly has baffled scientists.

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 Today, a baffled lady observed the shell where my soul dwells And announced that I'm

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 it is one of the world's great mysteries a biblical conundrum that has baffled

Baffle

Confuse or perplex someone.

Often appears as...

To prevent, block or interfere with something or someone's progress.

Often appears as...

A device used to restrain the flow of a fluid, gas, sound, or light.

Often appears as...

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Unexpected Situations

Not Just Surprised

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