riddle

It’s the riddle of how to divide up the ever-dwindling supply of water from the Colorado River.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The riddle of Bell Labs—indeed, the great mystery of innovation itself—is how, over many decades, its employees came up with ideas and products that ultimately changed the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 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

We’d squirm and giggle with joy and excitement every time a new riddle featured one of us.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

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

Critics have accused the program of being riddled with fraud and abuse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Arsenal's close season was one characterised by some unquestionable successes, but also riddled by difficulties and frustration.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

When the second-largest U.S. bank discloses its quarterly financial results, analysts have to decipher the lexicon of CEO Brian Moynihan, riddled with obscure, archaic words fit for novelists or judges of bygone centuries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

The side was riddled with crevices and caves, spiked with jagged ridges like ax blades.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

You can’t help but like her even though she’s oblivious to the way her privilege provides insulation and her prescriptions turn out to be riddling and fickle.

From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2022

“Lou Grant” went on like that for five years, riddling the moral dramas of imperfect humans trying to do good work when their only tool was a sledgehammer.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2021

Gaffney’s focus on human/equine body language is fascinating, especially in the way it helps her discern the weaknesses riddling some of the hard cases she’s dealing with.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2020

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