riddle
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The fundamental problem exposed by the latest court fight is that no one has a solution to the riddle of apportionment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
I mean, the reason to be optimistic is because humans are amazing problem-solving riddle crackers, right?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
A 48-46 defeat, settled by a France penalty with the clock in the red, only adds to the riddle.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
John Parker believes he has solved the riddle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026
He then looked at me with his exposed eyes, which were full of slowly subsiding mirth and the pride of someone who knows a really good riddle or two.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
Software engineer Simon Martin, 44, who lives in Ancoats, recounted how a cab driver told him he would have hesitated once to pick him up, when the area was riddled with crime.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
On the other there’s a career riddled with gaffes and allegedly immoral conduct that makes him an easy punching bag for the writers at “SNL” with the help of his late-night TV doppelganger Aziz Ansari.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
And that was before the surf zone became riddled with rocks, logs, rods, pipes and wires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Giles Mason, who runs the Take 5 to Stop Fraud campaign at UK Finance which represents the banking and finance industry, said scam emails used to be "riddled with spelling mistakes, poor grammar".
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Stood in the silver tarnish of a half-moon and glanced up to a sky riddled with stars.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
But if he is celebrated for his radical, riddling photos, he has turned his back on such play in his quite functional design for the Hirshhorn.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2021
He also served as a source for my notorious 1993 article “The Death of Proof,” which reported that “the doubts riddling modern human thought have finally infected mathematics.”
From Scientific American ● Sep. 15, 2019
A triptych tells riddling tales of masters and servants, with the same two actors playing all the roles, in two sumptuous gardens at an Italian villa.
From The New Yorker ● May 6, 2019
“A Place to Lie Down and Sleep” presents the most riddling scenario.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2017
No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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