conundrum

One significant question is the Cody Gakpo conundrum, which will roll into the final week of the transfer window.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

WASHINGTON—President Trump’s half-built White House ballroom is a 90,000-square-foot embodiment of a recurring legal conundrum: What happens when a boundary-pushing president moves faster than courts can keep up?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Many parents are in a conundrum: They need their jobs to pay the bills, but they also need trustworthy childcare; without the latter, they may not be able to work those jobs.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

Designer Satoshi Nakagawa has long battled sceptics, but believes that the technology powering the 800 LEDs has a role to play in solving humanity's energy conundrum.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death—ought to decide, indeed, to earn one’s death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

A trio of comedies about lost, affluent white men grapples with the manly conundrums of our times—and paints a troubled picture of modern men.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

There are almost no conundrums faced by Sir Keir and his government that this war does not make even harder.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026

He answered listener conundrums, including which Gabfest host would make the best dictator and what pastry he’d like to be reincarnated as.

From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2025

Award-winning biographer Wilson approaches the life of Scottish writer Muriel Spark as a series of puzzles and conundrums to be teased out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2025

Perhaps, people being the conundrums that they are, and having so little desire to shoulder the burden of their lives, this is what will always happen.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin