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riddle

[rid-l] / ˈrɪd l /




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When the anonymous clues take a spooky turn, Felix calls on an unlikely ally to help him solve the final riddle and bring the scavenger hunt to a close.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Powell tiptoed away from saying how the Fed would answer that riddle.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 30, 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

But the cyclops can’t solve the simplest of riddles and the increasingly exasperated maidens, who’ll be free once a riddle is solved, can’t get them to stop approaching the cave or from making terrible guesses.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 8, 2026

I really don’t want to solve another riddle right now, but as soon as Trub says “sticky,” I know exactly what he means.

From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott

SpaceX’s route to achieving its grand connectivity vision for Starlink is riddled with multibillion-dollar problems and would require decades’ worth of catching up, according to MoffettNathanson analysts.

From MarketWatch Jul. 25, 2026

McElwee’s last documentary, 2011’s “Photographic Memory,” saw Adrian as a young adult, trying to come into his own and figure out his place in life amid a shifting social landscape riddled with digital black holes.

From Salon Jul. 24, 2026

First, practice distinguishing between what the Constitution says and what judges and justices say about the Constitution, a document riddled with aspirational vagaries and flexible abstractions.

From Slate Jul. 20, 2026

Behind the scenes, ADI Predictstreet’s launch has been riddled with problems.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

It was big and swollen and riddled with crevices and white, scarred blemishes.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

Ireland wholeheartedly embraced the potato, riddling its soils with a vine that, when it is good, is very, very good, but when it goes bad, dies en masse.

From Seattle Times Mar. 8, 2023

“Gone Girl” bombards us with testimonies, letters, phone calls, riddling treasure hunt clues and the aforementioned diary entries, prodding us to read smarter.

From Washington Post Jun. 12, 2022

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

‘Are the riddling words known to you that Boromir brought to Rivendell?’

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien




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