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The phrase "a number of perplexing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to multiple confusing or puzzling issues, situations, or questions.
Example: "The report presented a number of perplexing challenges that the team needed to address."
Alternatives: "several confusing" or "many puzzling".
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A number of perplexing moral questions arise in the measurement of the disease burden associated with stillbirth.
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This idea (put forward by physicist Alan Guth) explained in one blow a number of otherwise perplexing features of our universe.
Carson's position within the paranormal wing of the G.O.P. is perplexing for a number of reasons.
In the end, officials allowed the donkey to remain onstage, but they insisted on a number of last-minute changes that significantly altered the production and left the audience perplexed.
In the weeks since that decision, the administration has made a number of other environmental decisions, sending mixed messages that left both environmentalists and industry lobbyists perplexed.
Furthermore, what has been perplexing to date has been the huge variance in performance on the Stroop in a number of meta-analyses, with little explanation of why this may be the case (Robinson et al. 2006; Torres et al. 2007; Arts et al. 2008; Kurtz and Gerraty 2009; Bora et al. 2009; Mann-Wrobel et al. 2011; Hajek et al. 2013).
Many regard it as a symbol of national strength at a time of perplexing social changes.
"Blood Simple" evoked an equal number of dissertations and disquisitions, which perplexed the filmmakers with such arcane observations as "the Coens offer a compelling analysis of mauvaise foi in the Sartrean vein".
For instance, Twitter engineers were once perplexed by crashes that were affecting a small number of users, and the Crashlytics tool set eventually helped them figure out those users were on jailbroken iOS devices.
A good number of Williams's stories turn, I now see, on the question of hallucination, on facts and details that perplex the reader but make private sense to the characters.
Propelled by the skyrocketing number of diagnoses of the perplexing brain disorder autism in children, federal officials have for the first time mapped out a long-term, interagency plan to deal with the problem.
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