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enigma

[uh-nig-muh] / əˈnɪg mə /


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Enter Digby, a handsome, quick-witted and wealthy enigma who smells faintly of fig.

From The Wall Street Journal

Most of my book is devoted to trying to sort out this political enigma, and how the movement and its consequences might be understood.

From Salon

While much of “Fatherland” feels underdeveloped, it is to Ms. Shorr’s credit that she has let Martin remain a disturbing enigma.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mueller, who served as a Marine, was something of an enigma even to aides and was rarely spotted on the social circuit.

From The Wall Street Journal

She was a practiced, phenomenal flirt, “Now, Doctor—be candid!—am I not correct when I say you are an enigma past finding out? You know I am.”

From Literature