enigma

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

Mueller, who served as a Marine, was something of an enigma even to aides and was rarely spotted on the social circuit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026

The microwave was another enigma: We wondered how it cooked food, since it didn’t grill or fry.

From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana

Despite decades of study, dark energy remains one of science's most puzzling enigmas.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 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

Considering how efficiently the movie sets up its rules, the filmmakers opt to shatter one of its central, compelling enigmas by attempting to explain it in a poorly written scene toward the end.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025

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

Even Shakespeare, the greatest dramatist that ever existed, often gives us riddles to guess and enigmas to puzzle over.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall