mystery
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In his earlier alien films, extraterrestrials represented mystery and escape.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
The mystery remains difficult to solve because the full sequence of events that led to life is impossible to observe directly and extremely challenging to recreate.
From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026
But the film proceeds at its own steady pace as measured by Ms. Bravo, with a psycho-cinematic complexity that transcends any routine mystery movie.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
Warsh’s confirmation testimony cut through the fog: inflation is not an act of God, a shipping-container mystery, or a Gulf headline.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 6, 2026
I know better than to attempt to get Celia to reveal anything before she’s ready, so I make myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and let Celia’s little mystery go, for now.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
Vocabulary lists containing mystery
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