puzzle
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“I had chills and shivers up and down my spine. It’s another puzzle in the Ice Age saga that we can put into place.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Will I fail a captcha puzzle if I don’t select all of the right squares?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
"I believe there is the potential that had we received that evidence and analysed it, that we would have been able to put the pieces of the puzzle together much more quickly."
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
The discovery could help explain a long-standing puzzle in rheumatoid arthritis: why the disease repeatedly attacks certain joints while leaving others largely untouched.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
It was a puzzle he had to solve, but to which he had no pieces.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
If the puzzles are on their way out, why am I still seeing so many of them?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
An AI that’s great at solving medical or inventory-management puzzles is an AI that can be turned to any problem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
The researchers say the bounce could potentially address two major puzzles in cosmology.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Whether or not you like puzzles, you can count on that.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
So he could have quiet for concentration when we picked at our puzzles after work.
From "Sunny" by Jason Reynolds
Muthoni Macharia, who runs a restaurant in the capital, Nairobi, usually buys more than 70 packets of fresh milk - and is desperate and puzzled by the scarcity.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
What puzzled the researchers was not simply that more baryons than antibaryons were produced.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
Some economists were puzzled by the results but said higher minimum wage and the healthcare industry probably helped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Economists and analysts have puzzled for several years over why an economy that looks relatively solid by traditional metrics, if not stellar, has produced such a sour public mood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Of course, Miranda and her mom were really puzzled when they came home and found both bedrooms unlocked and Clem cowering under the living-room sofa.
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
Attacks on military and defence targets are not new, although previous acts of sabotage linked to Russia include more puzzling targets - such as an Ikea store and a Polish paint store.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Kelly pulls out his phone to show me a video of a woman whose account is dedicated to sharing puzzling life advice while she appears under an extreme beauty filter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
One of the most enduring mysteries that has been puzzling scientists forever is how the Sun's outer atmosphere - the corona - is millions of degrees hotter than its surface.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Researchers led by scientists at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, have identified the source of a puzzling abundance of low-energy gamma rays released by the zinc-70 nucleus.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
Then she screwed on the cap really slowly, sort of puzzling her forehead, as though what Steph had asked was just incredibly thought-provoking or something.
From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth
