Economists, typically baffled by selflessness, have tended to hunt for hidden self-interest in apparent altruism.
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The continued strength of big-city real estate prices has baffled all sorts of experts.
Critics are baffled that the principal scientist who conducted the tests is a Muslim.
Four years ago, when Meitec began using the English word "outsourcing, " the local press was baffled.
Jake, who is highly moral, eager to impress, and ambitious, is hurt and baffled.
Immigration is a complicated issue that has baffled the Golden State for more than 25 years.
Coming from an entirely different culture, politicians and journalists are baffled by enterprise and science.
They are baffled, frightened, and lurching right and left depending on the calamity du jour.
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And reading both I felt the same baffled indignation that they were not famous.
For months, the disappearance of Mr Falconio, a 28-year-old graduate from Brighton University, baffled investigators.
Justice Minister David Ford said he was "baffled" by what the unionist politicians had said.
He said he was baffled when the President tried to cut the program last year.
But, it was the sudden increase in visits by Millennial women that baffled Build-A-Bear staffers.
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He was baffled by the wad of Croatian kuna a bank machine spit into his hand.
One little bit in the piece explains something that baffled me at the time.
Some of King's closest aides are baffled at the argument that King opposed affirmative action policies.
The ring has baffled archaeologists because it is unlike any other according to the Yorkshire Museum.
Mr Portillo's transformation from right-wing ideologue to touchy-feely liberal clearly baffled some of his audience.
The king, a genial Anglophile who went to Sandhurst, is appalled and slightly baffled by events.
Even I, inexperienced and baffled and horrified as I was, could sense the absurdity of this.
So a Victorian would have been baffled by the modern use of the term.
She's genuinely baffled by this golden child, and touched by the motherly instincts that O's tenderness provokes.
Once I was baffled by this duality: diamonds for my parents, crumbs for my wife and me.
We can now handle visual shortcuts and codes that would have baffled us even 20 years ago.
Our fellow-passengers, well-scrubbed young aides and one or two dim-looking senators, chuckled nervously or simply looked baffled.
Those who are baffled that such meetings could occur clearly do not live in Silicon Valley.
If it did not have one at all, there would be a lot of baffled potential employees.
Scientists had been baffled for years trying to figure out how the humble old schnozz performs its miracles.
As both a digital marketer and Madden player, Tim Welsh said he was also baffled by the move.
During and after the Steam affair, game producer Sergey Titov seemed unapologetic, apparently baffled by the controversy.
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