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How to use the word mystified in a Sentence?

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I have always been mystified that you could vote for a president of one party and then a congressperson of a different party, but voters do that all the time, they are just tough to beat. That is what it is -- certain people have the ability to hang in there, so there is a level of respect.

Joe Foster

Found on CNN
2 years ago

To be GOVERNED is to be kept in sight, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so. . . To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

added by Normando
3 years ago

I am sort of just mystified.

An Amazon spokesperson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I’m mystified what I’m supposed to do.

Alexander Lindsay

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I'm just mystified, to be honest.

Lee Hanley

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I remain mystified by the fact that the use of a private e-mail account apparently went either unnoticed or unremarked upon during the four-year tenure in office of the former secretary, simply put, where was everyone ? Is there any record indicating that any lawyer, any FOIA officer, any records person, any high-level official ever respectfully confronted the former secretary with reasonable questions about the practice of sending e-mails from a private account ? It is unfathomable to me that this would not have been noticed and reported up the chain.

Jason Baron

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I'm mystified by some of the things that were said here today ... that Volkswagen never ... hurt human rights, i don't know, I think you're on another planet.

Lucio Bellentani , 70

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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