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  • verb Present participle of flummox.

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Examples

  • Laid out in the 1920s by Alister MacKenzie, who also designed Augusta National and Cypress Point, it is flummoxing the world's greatest players at a length of less than 7,000 yards.

    Majesty at Royal Melbourne John Paul Newport 2011

  • Jackie feels compelled to translate my flummoxing foreign words: "Bien, fifille!"

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • Sign snafus in Northwest D.C. are flummoxing residents and passersby.

    Which way? Akeya Dickson 2011

  • Jackie feels compelled to translate my flummoxing foreign words: "Bien, fifille!"

    fifille - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Still wholly anonymous and most famous for wearing tuxes, top hats and tails with giant eyeball masks, the Residents remain a flummoxing entity even in the information age.

    Disco Donors, Punk Pioneers Andy Beta 2011

  • Alessandro had never lived a conventional life, and he was always flummoxing the rules.

    Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

  • Alessandro had never lived a conventional life, and he was always flummoxing the rules.

    Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

  • Burns doesn't sugar-coat his often unpalatable message for mass appeal, and uses every opportunity to commit career suicide – watch his cheekily subversive turn on BBC News, easily flummoxing a tediously professional Huw Edwards.

    This week's new comedy 2011

  • But Lexus and Benz have seen no need to lower their prices in a primal bellowing that hails their victory in the flummoxing marketplace.

    Matthew Anderson: America's on "Lockdown" 2010

  • A similar attempt to shake free of American power and influence occurred earlier this year when two U.S. allies, Turkey and Brazil, orchestrated an independent opening to Iran over its rogue nuclear program, flummoxing Washington.

    We’re No. 11! 2010

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