puzzle
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In this case, humans supplied all the pieces of a mathematical puzzle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Simpson said he had begun to “put the puzzle pieces together,” marrying concepts with lessons learned watching Stafford and Bennett.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
"Too many pieces of the puzzle need to be gathered, and the outcome is uncertain."
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
The jigsaw puzzle you had in your 30s and 40s will influence the one you have in your 60s.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
It was time to move on to the next piece of the puzzle: Who.
From "Hopping Mad (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #4)" by Franklin W. Dixon
Whether or not you like puzzles, you can count on that.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
I have a very loud addiction to puzzles — I don’t do them casually — so then I’ll open a puzzle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 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
Alexander asked eagerly, for he was the sort of student who enjoyed puzzles and tests of all kinds.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
“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
"I am pleased to see a physical model that can explain this observation, which has puzzled me for several years," El-Badry says.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
They were puzzled, but I trusted in my instincts as they tried to persuade me.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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
"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
You may find yourself inspecting a nearby ponderosa pine, perhaps, or an aspen or sweet gum, puzzling out the magic.
From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate
