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unriddle

[uhn-rid-l] / ʌnˈrɪd l /




VERB
unravel
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As I drank, I became aware that I was perched on the edge of my seat, fully at attention as I attempted to unriddle its intriguing, distantly familiar contents.

From Salon Feb. 15, 2024

In Marsala, I went back for seconds then thirds of Ristorante I Bucanieri's eggplant parm, trying to unriddle its confoundingly luxe texture.

From Salon Jul. 31, 2023

She told me that Wallace's crush was "a mystery I haven't been able to unriddle."

From New York Times Sep. 12, 2012

The most nonsensical notion, the most casual slip of the tongue, the most fantastic dream, must have a meaning and can be used to unriddle the often incomprehensible maneuvers we call thinking.

From Time Magazine Archive

The disappearance of the child was a mystery which no one could unriddle.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various

Jackie Gervercer tended bar and oversaw the cocktail menu, meaning she likely contrived the sugared rim and the addition of egg whites, which writer Chuck Sudo unriddled back in 2012 for the Chicagoist.

From Salon Nov. 3, 2021

Over time, I've unriddled a few secrets to a better French press brew.

From Salon Jul. 21, 2021

Ginsberg’s system handled the grid, and the colder mathematical side of things, searching and placing answers, while the Berkeley team’s system unriddled the hazier, “human” side of the language of the clues, crosswords’ music.

From Slate Apr. 27, 2021

There is mystery about Zita's male parentage which, when unriddled, restores society to good standing in the woods and Zita to her rich lover.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her husband was the unriddled riddle we have in the wealthy young lord,— burning to possess, and making, tatters of all he grasped, the moment it was his own.

From The Amazing Marriage — Volume 3 by George Meredith

Modern art may be a riddle to most people, but there are always experts indefatigably willing to try unriddling it.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Prince continued his unriddling of the scheme hatched in Castile.

From Chivalry by James Branch Cabell

Irish mysteries are coming to be unriddled now, but there will be no unriddling of that.

From The Landleaguers by Anthony Trollope

The outcome of this exhaustive and unprofitable labor was the fascinating story of "The Gold Bug," a story in which the discovery of hidden treasure is brought about by the unriddling of an intricate cipher.

From Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works by Edgar Allan Poe

Now give me my tea—I’m famishing—and after that we’ll talk of this new riddle that needs unriddling for the honour of the Yard.

From Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories by Thomas W. Hanshew




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