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mystery

[mis-tuh-ree, -tree] / ˈmɪs tə ri, -tri /


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“You Can See Everything” is perhaps the fullest portrait of the private life of Holmes to date, but it also paints her as more of a mystery than ever before.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission encountered an unexpected mystery when it arrived at asteroid Bennu in 2018.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

"This mystery has been ongoing for 90 years and the mystery continues," said project director Rick Pettigrew, speaking from near the site of the object.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

It’s an ordinary world wrapped in mystery and sometimes mist, but it’s the ordinariness that gives the show its power as much as, or more than, the mysteriousness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

I wondered how dressing up as a mystic would solve a mystery like this one.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

Our stories of justice, from murder mysteries to tales of thwarted romance, invariably climax not with revelation but with confession.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

One of the biggest mysteries the researchers wanted to explain was why black holes do not always launch jets at the same time.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Eventually Stallo’s and Maur’s paths cross as she draws closer to the secrets around her son’s career in the RAF and the mysteries of a paranormal realm unknown to the rest of the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Nobel Prize-winning American researcher Karl Deisseroth is a psychiatrist, neuroscientist and bioengineer who has spent more than two decades illuminating the workings of the brain to unlock its mysteries.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Joe and Frank were known around town for solving mysteries, even though they were only eight and nine years old.

From "A Monster of a Mystery (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #5)" by Franklin W. Dixon


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