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enigma

[uh-nig-muh] / əˈnɪg mə /


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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

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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