conundrum

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

But there’s a power conundrum: Though data centers appear to me to be the fastest growing consumers of natural gas for electricity generation, hyperscalers aren’t doing anything I’m aware of to increase natural-gas supply.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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

It was a conundrum, to be sure, but a good night’s sleep and a tasty breakfast had restored Penelope’s supply of pluck, and she felt more than ready for the challenge.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

Spare a thought for Alan Horsburgh, who has a bundle of conundrums to work through.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, David Plotz, and special guest Stephen Colbert answer listeners’ conundrums of all kinds: the meaningful, the trivial, and the delightfully absurd.

From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2025

Webster and Hopkins’s unique creation invites readers to stand in for the three main characters— the debutante Helen; the caddish Jed; and the good guy Saunders—as these hapless young people confront romantic and ethical conundrums.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

And while there are entire branches of philosophy devoted to the conundrums from misaligned moral tenets and professional duties, negotiation offers some of the more creative approaches.

From Salon ● May 23, 2025

I was so frightened, and at the mercy of so many conundrums, that inevitably, that summer, someone would have taken me over; one doesn’t, in Harlem, long remain standing on any auction block.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin