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The phrase "find it perplexing" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when expressing confusion or difficulty in understanding something.
Example: "I find it perplexing that some people still deny climate change despite overwhelming evidence."
Alternatives: "consider it puzzling" or "regard it as confusing."
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But I feel the same way about The Seldom Seen Kid as I did about its three predecessors, and I find it perplexing that they are seen as purveyors of classy, literate, emotional, grown-up rock while Coldplay are routinely reviled for being pompous, portentous and angstily adolescent, when really, I find it hard to tell them apart.
Yet many others find it perplexing.
In fact, those on the ground find it perplexing.
"I find it perplexing the way the 'moral values' phrase is used," said the Rev. Mark Greiner, the pastor at the Presbyterian church that Ward attends.
So far the government has taken a hard-line stance and I find it perplexing.
As a physician, technology geek and mother, I find it perplexing that one area of healthcare that has not yet been penetrated by electronic devices is hand hygiene.
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The indie kids who had paid a very reasonable £13 entrance fee clearly found it perplexing.
Ms. Villacorta's lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, said after the verdict was announced in State Supreme Court in Manhattan that he found it perplexing.
Gregory T. Angelo, president of the Log Cabin Republicans, an organization advocating for LGBT conservatives, said he finds it "perplexing" that Manning would be idolized.
McAndrew, meanwhile, found it perplexing.
One night we were talking about her work and she said she found it perplexing when her friends said they were worried about her, as though she didn't understand the risks of her profession.
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