In the face of such a chart, puzzlement is unlikely to be one of them.

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The patient gave me a look that was somewhere between puzzlement and alarm.

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Given Mr Erdogan's reputation as a savvy politician, there is puzzlement in Ankara over why he shifted his ground on the penal code so abruptly.

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Even now, many Argentines cannot understand why the IMF did not do more to help, and there is genuine puzzlement as to the IMF's continuing refusal to reach a deal with the government.

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So you can understand the puzzlement if the Knicks opt to use Jeremy Lin a player who briefly but genuinely thrilled the city of New York last winter as an opportunity to curb an institutional tradition of igniting money.

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And in the tour de force, one lucky member of the troupe, Ryan Dunn, inserts a toy car into his rectum and then goes to the doctor for an X-ray, feigning puzzlement over his inability to sit down without discomfort.

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The greatest puzzlement will undoubtedly concern the actions taken to undermine even further the calamitous state of health and education at a time when it was obvious that the economic future of country depended on having a healthy and well-educated population.

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