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mysterious

[mi-steer-ee-uhs] / mɪˈstɪər i əs /


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Only a few people at NeXT knew what was going on when mysterious visitors from Washington showed up at the office, and those employees knew better than to ask too many questions.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

A woman has claimed a free pint of beer after finding a coin and a mysterious message hidden in the wall of her house.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Together, these efforts could help astronomers reconstruct the family tree of little red dots and determine how these mysterious early universe sources develop over cosmic time.

From Science Daily Aug. 17, 2026

Add pandemic adolescence, expensive housing and stagnant wages, and different choices begin to look less mysterious than inevitable.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2026

Danny couldn’t tell them that he’d run away from his field trip, that he’d been left behind and he had a mysterious book that he had definitely not stolen from the display case.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova




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