conundrum

Rising beef prices have been a vexing conundrum for the Trump administration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Then there’s the conundrum: Consumers trade off more highly valued energy uses against less-valued ones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

The conundrum over how to manage the early release of prisoners is an acute example of the tricky political decision-making that inevitably comes with power.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 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

But the real conundrum that heredity solves is much more general: What is the nature of instruction that allows an organism to build a nose—any nose—in the first place?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Their work is a cultural bridge much like Ashitaka’s effort to bring the worlds of beasts and men together for a common cause, depicting what Miyazaki sees as one of humanism’s central conundrums.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 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

That means some interesting conundrums may arise during the race.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025

It’s something that almost never happens in the NFL because finding a new quarterback is one of the game’s most maddening conundrums.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 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