puzzle

Example Sentences

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This is a really important piece of the puzzle.

From Slate • May 18, 2026

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn hired three-time world Sudoku champion Thomas Snyder as its first-ever puzzlemaster and initially launched three daily puzzle games modeled on the short, habit-forming design the Times pioneered -- a number that has grown.

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

The shocking answer unlocks a puzzle that has been troubling her, along with others that “The Kindness of Strangers” has laid out for the reader.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

That result created a puzzle for scientists because the climate during that period was still believed to be intensely cold and difficult for humans to endure.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2026

Each time, the sheet was lifted only high enough to expose the area we were washing, making it feel as though there wasn’t a whole person beneath the linen, just a puzzle of disembodied parts.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros