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riddle

[rid-l] / ˈrɪd l /




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Powell tiptoed away from saying how the Fed would answer that riddle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

A 48-46 defeat, settled by a France penalty with the clock in the red, only adds to the riddle.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026

But the cyclops can’t solve the simplest of riddles and the increasingly exasperated maidens, who’ll be free once a riddle is solved, can’t get them to stop approaching the cave or from making terrible guesses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2026

John Parker believes he has solved the riddle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026

The well she's mentioned reminds me of another riddle.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi

Software engineer Simon Martin, 44, who lives in Ancoats, recounted how a cab driver told him he would have hesitated once to pick him up, when the area was riddled with crime.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Spexard says take-home assignments became so riddled with AI slop that they’re becoming obsolete and live assignments are now the way to go.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Sanft has also said prosecution witnesses were unreliable and the police investigation was riddled with issues.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

And being riddled with all the cliched insecurities that every other actor, when you’re playing it, you go, “God, this feels great. To not even have to try with people must be so wonderful.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

“It is a difficult road you’ve taken, one riddled with hardships and painful ordeals, but then again, you are difficult children.”

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

A.I. will never pose a threat to the real thing — to writing with convictions, honest doubts, riddling wit, a personal vision of the world, rawness and originality.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2023

“Gone Girl” bombards us with testimonies, letters, phone calls, riddling treasure hunt clues and the aforementioned diary entries, prodding us to read smarter.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 12, 2022

Gaffney’s focus on human/equine body language is fascinating, especially in the way it helps her discern the weaknesses riddling some of the hard cases she’s dealing with.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2020

He also served as a source for my notorious 1993 article “The Death of Proof,” which reported that “the doubts riddling modern human thought have finally infected mathematics.”

From Scientific American ● Sep. 15, 2019

‘Are the riddling words known to you that Boromir brought to Rivendell?’

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien




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