puzzle
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“Victory would be justice, and a piece of the puzzle to restoring my grandfather’s legacy and his collection.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Regulators grappling with the risks of private credit may be missing a key piece of the puzzle: a potentially huge layer of debt the industry generally doesn’t disclose, WSJ Pro’s Chris Cumming writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Minal was my missing puzzle piece I had waited so long for.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
The discovery could help explain a long-standing puzzle in rheumatoid arthritis: why the disease repeatedly attacks certain joints while leaving others largely untouched.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
Chip had sat down at the computer and was manipulating the images, piecing several photos together like a jigsaw puzzle.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
By applying information theory, the team developed a strategy that solved 99% of Wordle puzzles in simulations.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
Why Neornithes endured while other birds and dinosaurs vanished remains one of paleontology's enduring puzzles.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
He says Google, a unit of Alphabet, long ago shifted its bot-detection technology away from relying primarily on visual puzzles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
An AI that’s great at solving medical or inventory-management puzzles is an AI that can be turned to any problem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
"That's one of our most popular puzzles," the clerk said.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
OpenAI agents recently solved parts of the Navier-Stokes problem, which has puzzled mathematicians for almost a century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The oligarch was part of a large group whose presence puzzled other attendees.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
Its ineligibility puzzled many who remember Schitt's Creek, a show more Canadian than maple cream cookies, dominating the Emmys in 2021.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
What puzzled the researchers was not simply that more baryons than antibaryons were produced.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
Something kept crawling over her body, flickering its antennae as it puzzled over the addition to its home.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
The puzzling part is how strong the genetic case looks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Attacks on military and defence targets are not new, although previous acts of sabotage linked to Russia include more puzzling targets - such as an Ikea store and a Polish paint store.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
The signals could shed light on a puzzling group of objects known as XYZ states.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
Kelly pulls out his phone to show me a video of a woman whose account is dedicated to sharing puzzling life advice while she appears under an extreme beauty filter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
In 1913, while puzzling over the structure of the atom, Bohr had an idea so exciting that he postponed his honeymoon to write what became a landmark paper.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
