mystery
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One bright spring morning he appears, as quickly and oddly as a desert chill, sitting calmly in front of his locker, October’s mystery hero, alone, in full view, finally.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
Together they sketched out the story’s framework: a murder mystery set in a small town replete with shameful secrets and sinister magic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
But where the blazing redhead star turned recluse’s mystery came from something thrown into the water, the copper-tressed, genre-blurring songwriter’s own mysteries are contained within.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
It’s set in a bougie bohemian realm inhabited by actors and writers, cultural nomads who have mystery and money, and a tinge of the sordid about them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
It’s our father, likely calling to see how our mystery shopping trip to the nonexistent Somewhere Mall went.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
Vocabulary lists containing mystery
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