flummoxed

Although Darwin was the son and grandson of physicians, the most eminent doctors of the day were flummoxed by his symptoms.

Flummoxed by his true-false final exam, a student decides to toss a coin up in the air.

But last week, when he got his hands on a laptop running the newest version of Windows for the first time, Mr. McCarthy was flummoxed.

Toyota, General Motors and Volvo may be flummoxed for the moment because supplies from Japan have been disrupted.

This preference has flummoxed protocol offices the world over, notably in Paris, where Qaddafi pitched his tent for a week in 2007.

I travel to Pasadena to learn about Doyle's work and am a bit flummoxed by his suggestion to meet not in his lab but in his gym.

Those that did emerge often quickly went into reverse, leaving macro funds, which usually invest in longer-term themes, flummoxed.

As a contrast to the high regard in which I hold Rogers as an investor, I am somewhat flummoxed with his claims to be anti-war.

Even after students got the hang of the game by practicing it, they were flummoxed when a new visual feature was introduced.

The defeat has flummoxed business and mining leaders, who were preparing for the higher costs of a carbon-trading economy.

They have studied wages across the world and been flummoxed by the diversity of goods and services, which complicate any easy comparisons.

But many experts were flummoxed by CDS contracts or shied away from educating themselves about these relatively new investments.

Today, it's highly unlikely that any Chinese technician would be similarly flummoxed.

he was so flummoxed by his inability to work the family's washing machine that he phoned his mom back in China for help.

The cause of this boy boom has long flummoxed thinkers and scientists.

That should be a comforting thought for the world's flummoxed financial regulators.

EXAMPLE: The complicated new tax regulations completely flummoxed even the most clever accountants.

Producers and actors of Existentialist plays are completely flummoxed if asked to cut the cackle and say exactly what they mean.

But experts looking for shopping patterns are flummoxed, says Tim Denison at Synovate, a research firm.

The suggestion of fiddling public finances flummoxed and infuriated him.

This changed environment leaves China's Europe watchers flummoxed.

The incident has flummoxed firms providing analytical coverage of China Gas.

Since 1966, he has cruised the San Diego highways looking for motorists flummoxed by flat tires and dead batteries.

Second, the complexity of parliament means that many people are flummoxed by its decision-making processes.