The word quizzical has appeared in 21 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Oct. 4 in the essay “What Does College Football Have to Do With College?” by John Branch:
Even if we dismiss the debate over playing brain-breaking games at institutions tasked with making people smarter (which we collectively do, it seems), does a multibillion-dollar sports enterprise, attached to American universities, make any sense?
These questions, asked of friends before Colorado’s homecoming game, were met with quizzical looks that said, “You OK?”
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