Definition of "puzzling" []

• Present participle of puzzle. (verb)
• Difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing (adjective)
• Time spent pondering something confusing. (noun)

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• "Defensive coordinator Mike Pettine, who oversees a group that was the league's No. 1 defense in 2009, used the word "puzzling.""
• "What's puzzling is why the rest of the world still wants to hold its money as a reserve currency."
• "Most puzzling is how he has failed thus far to utilize his remarkable gifts for persuasion and inspiration even in regard to his own significant successes (an omission that his current town meetings are at last addressing)."