puzzling

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Yet clear fossil evidence only dates back to about 540 million years ago, leaving a puzzling 160 million-year gap in the record.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026

It would be easy to conclude that this is merely a case of managers using A.I. to do less work, but many employees have noticed something puzzling: Their managers seem more burned out than ever.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2026

And yet he then showed why he has admirers who find his exclusion from Tuchel's plans puzzling.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

Which makes it puzzling that Jewett’s other books are so rarely reprinted.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

That seems especially puzzling and self-defeating, since a microbe that kills its host kills itself.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond