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For some reason nearly every kids' toothpaste (Colgate Barney, Oral-B Rugrats) is a viscous gel--especially perplexing since thick gels are ineradicable when smeared across a sink top.
This editorial asserts that "the greatest fear among cultured folk is that they will say something critical about a perplexing new painting, play, book, or novel that will, in a hundred years' time, be considered a towering masterpiece."
U.S. policy-makers often find the operation of Chinese politics quite incomprehensible, but Chinese officials must find the United States equally perplexing.
The KLM pilot's otherwise perplexing use of the very nonstandard phrase at take-off, rather than the more standard phrase taking off, appears to have been a subtle form of what linguists call code-switching, a process in which bilingual or multilingual speakers inadvertently switch back and forth from one of their languages to another in the course of a conversation.
It is most perplexing then, that Sullivan, who is writing about the end of an epidemic, after all, never mentions the word "vaccine" in his article.