enigma
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For many Americans, the price of prescription drugs is an enigma.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Clarke's team are becoming a bit of an enigma, a curiosity that's hard to read.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026
Most of my book is devoted to trying to sort out this political enigma, and how the movement and its consequences might be understood.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2026
Dolls, masks, impenetrable shadows: a conjured enigma, all typical Meatyard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026
I knew loads about Jesse—he loved baths but hated hot tubs, he listened to self-important indie music, cologne made his eyes puffy, he never washed his jeans—but Diego was an enigma.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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Artists know that enigmas bring us closer to the truth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025
It unfolds along the same lines as “The Perfect Couple” and “Nine Perfect Strangers,” both of which feature Nicole Kidman playing patrician enigmas — a trend that began with her turn in "Big Little Lies."
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025
However, there are still many enigmas about the molecular mechanisms that would explain the anomalies that make the water molecule unique.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2024
Under the rules, the finder has to show that they correctly solved the enigmas and did not just stumble upon the owl by chance.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2024
He views the conflicting tumult of the passions; sees families and kingdoms raging in aimless commotion; sees those inexplicable enigmas of misunderstanding, which frequently a single monosyllable would suffice to explain, occasioning convulsions unutterably baleful.
From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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