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conundrum

[kuh-nuhn-druhm] / kəˈnʌn drəm /


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Slot has lost the faith of many supporters, with former Liverpool and England midfielder Danny Murphy telling BBC Sport it is a conundrum he feels will end with the Dutchman's departure within months.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

To do that, they need to solve a conundrum: Car-size batteries are expensive.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

The real conundrum for Pakistan's economy has always been finding drivers for GDP growth, and that challenge remains.

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

"Until recently, while stellar rotation was thought to be part of solving this conundrum, limited computing abilities prevented us from quantitatively testing the hypothesis," says Falk Herwig, principal investigator and director of ARC.

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026

The one scientist they did revere, if begrudgingly, was Linus Pauling—the larger-than-life Caltech chemist who had recently announced that he had solved an important conundrum in the structure of proteins.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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