puzzle out
Example Sentences
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He likens what the group is doing to “building a puzzle out of thousands of other puzzles, gluing it together to make a new thing.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
This is difficult to puzzle out because, as mentioned, dark matter does not interact with light and it does not seem to decay over time — but it does have gravity.
From Salon • Dec. 26, 2024
But Maitlis says she spent years "trying to puzzle out" what the words meant.
From BBC • Sep. 9, 2024
Once they had the pseudorandom graph in place, they still had to puzzle out several pieces of math.
From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2024
“They still ain’t managed to puzzle out why the Stormcrows and the Second Sons went over to the dragon queen.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
