conundrum
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This clever tale is most satisfying when Ms. McTiernan brings that painful conundrum to life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Realistically we still need to look at the back four conundrum though.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Designer Satoshi Nakagawa has long battled sceptics, but believes that the technology powering the 800 LEDs has a role to play in solving humanity's energy conundrum.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
While it’s been a troubling conundrum addressed by AI experts and Hollywood science-fiction scriptwriters for decades, it may have just happened.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
That was always the conundrum: Had I made the right choice in putting the people’s welfare even before that of my own family?
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Their work is a cultural bridge much like Ashitaka’s effort to bring the worlds of beasts and men together for a common cause, depicting what Miyazaki sees as one of humanism’s central conundrums.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
He answered listener conundrums, including which Gabfest host would make the best dictator and what pastry he’d like to be reincarnated as.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2025
It’s something that almost never happens in the NFL because finding a new quarterback is one of the game’s most maddening conundrums.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025
Award-winning biographer Wilson approaches the life of Scottish writer Muriel Spark as a series of puzzles and conundrums to be teased out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2025
As to how she could be both dead and here, dream logic was untroubled by conundrums.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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