puzzle
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Europe’s air-conditioning and wildfire puzzle may be a breakthrough moment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
The puzzle only deepened with the discovery in recent years of six more ceremonial pits full of shattered artifacts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
The newly identified vortices could provide an important piece of that puzzle as well.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
I’ll work on a puzzle and watch some trash popcorn TV that I love — reality TV: “Love Island,” “Temptation Island,” “Survivor,” anything like that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Ray brings us to dinner at Celia and Stan’s on Mondays so Lou Ann can go to her puzzle club, and that’s been really nice.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
Whether or not you like puzzles, you can count on that.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Writing in The Times, Beard bemoaned that the poem's "erotic puzzles, the teasing ironies, the intriguing questions about truth and falsehood" had been replaced with "a rather ponderous Hollywood message about civilisational decline".
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
He also said he would continue doing the newspaper’s crossword puzzles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
She puzzles out the distinctions among nursing homes, assisted living facilities and continuing care retirement communities, as well as home healthcare.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
She made notes about books they had bought together and puzzles they had shared.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
“A lot of people are left puzzled by the gap between her actions and the words that she says about being a federalist.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
If you’re puzzled, that’s OK, you should be.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
Earlier this month, the Nigerian American author posted a since-deleted video on TikTok that also left her followers puzzled in which she said there was a reason she stopped promoting the forthcoming film.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Since its discovery in 2002, the structure has puzzled geologists.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 30, 2026
Margaret, who was not privy to all the complexities of the situation, seemed puzzled by this sudden outcry for baking expertise.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
"For the future, it's a little puzzling, to say the least," she told AFP in an interview.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Pessimism about the economy persists across classes, puzzling economists despite healthy hiring and consumer-spending metrics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
A competing interpretation has emerged of the preliminary report's most puzzling detail: the brief movement of both fuel-control switches to "cutoff" shortly after take-off.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
U.S. authorities deny any part in the puzzling series of events, which involved a pair of 35-ton fishing craft — not the sleek speedboats typically pictured in Department of Defense videos of maritime strikes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
It can best be approached by concentrating attention on historical patterns that remain puzzling after the effects of major environmental factors have been taken into account.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
