- present participle of puzzle.
puzzling
Example Sentences
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Puzzling was already a thing, but soon more groups formed on social media, while popular puzzles disappeared quickly from online and actual shelves.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 15, 2022
Puzzling out what Vladimir Putin is thinking and planning is challenging, to say the least.
From BBC • Jan. 28, 2022
Puzzling out your own insights, limited as they may be, is also a kind of habit.
From Washington Post • May 1, 2020
Puzzling out the new system took three years, and once again it was Driscoll who did the bulk of the work in cracking one of the most complicated systems ever seen.
From Slate • Oct. 10, 2017
Puzzling over everything she’d just learned, Emily walked into their kitchen to find her mom knee-deep in shopping bags and cardboard boxes.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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