Lance Armstrong used to perplex cycling experts with his sustained dominance in the mountainous phases of the Tour de France.

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The prime minister's carefully reasoned words seemed to perplex many.

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The earnestness of attitude, the grimness of the humor, and the careful compositions will perplex audiences too young to have seen Bergman movies and sadden, mostly by force of nostalgia, those devoted moviegoers who were raised on little else.

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