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puzzle
noun as in challenging, mysterious problem
verb as in baffle, confuse
verb as in wonder about
Example Sentences
Unfortunately, Balding locked in an incorrect combination at the first gate before the contestants had even begun tackling the puzzle, not realising you only got one chance to enter the code.
For decades, astronomers have been puzzled about why there are so many asteroids tumbling chaotically rather than spinning around a single rotational axis, and why smaller asteroids are more likely to be tumbling slowly.
Wordle, the addictive digital puzzle game offered daily by the New York Times, could soon be coming to television.
"That win was definitely a big piece of the puzzle," she says.
So if “Peacemaker” viewers were puzzled as to how a backwards, murderous bigot like Earth Prime Auggie could manifest as a doting father and an affluent man in a nearly identical world, now we know.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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