In fact, it's become a minor journalistic genre, the baffled inability by the older generation to comprehend what today's young people face.
"You'll know what she'd like, " the boss told the baffled college student.
And the baffled doctors, he says, unable to find a clear cause for the problem, tend to assume that it is all in the mind.
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They get asked impossible questions by stony-faced interviewers who offer them no feedback or encouragement, leaving the baffled victims feeling stupid and a little sweaty.
Woodson was still in the process of trying to pin down precisely how to counter the Pacers' top-ranked defense, which appears to have engendered a bit of infighting among the baffled Knick offense.
That is a major reason Sprint left most in the room baffled about the viability of its own future plans.
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And reading both I felt the same baffled indignation that they were not famous.
North Carolina's Tyler Zeller said he'd taken seven such exams over the course of his 10 workouts, and left the process baffled.
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The source was understandably baffled by the abruptness of the news, along with the added blow that no severance will be offered and stock holdings are essentially worth nothing.
He has set up a series of councils of advisers to act as a parallel source of thinking to the ministries, but has left even the councils baffled as to who is in charge of what.
Arran has said he would like to solve the Riemann hypothesis - a theory about the patterns of prime numbers which has baffled the greatest mathematicians for 150 years.
It's very quick to get around the phone, and it seldom leaves me baffled the way many incarnations of Android do.
The MP said he was baffled by the refusal to release Welsh details when the same rules applied in England.
As the euphoric fans in a sea of orange emphatically cheered as Pablo Sandoval joined the likes of Albert Pujols, Reggie Jackson and Babe Ruth as the only men to hit three home runs in a World Series game, the pitching duo of Barry Zito and Tim Lincecum baffled the surprisingly inept offense of the Tigers.
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The ring has baffled archaeologists because it is unlike any other according to the Yorkshire Museum.
As a crowd of about 200 watched, "Anonymous 9000" spoke on a big screen, his mask and white gloves lending theatrics even as he talked soberly about the inner workings of a movement that has alternately inspired, intimidated and baffled the Web.
One little bit in the piece explains something that baffled me at the time.
Visitors to the Wexner seemed as baffled as I was by the inclusion of conceptual work of Walead Beshty.
And the UCATT construction union said it was baffled by the decision not to extend its remit, saying there is endemic abuse of vulnerable workers in the building industry.
Goldberg is baffled that the case has not moved faster and he is more baffled that federal authorities have not filed charges against some of those named in his lawsuit.
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Immigration is a complicated issue that has baffled the Golden State for more than 25 years.
During and after the Steam affair, game producer Sergey Titov seemed unapologetic, apparently baffled by the controversy.
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This of course, baffled the big boys at the client company.
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When employees asked doctors for prices, the doctors were baffled.
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The question has baffled women, mostly, since biblical times.
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