puzzler

Example Sentences

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This mix of promise and threat is a puzzler.

From Slate • Feb. 28, 2026

It didn't cost them this time, but it remains a puzzler as to why this keeps happening.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2025

Hamaguchi welcomes all interpretations of his elegant puzzler, adding that he found the process of writing and shooting “Evil Does Not Exist” restorative.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2024

Those compounds didn't react at all, a puzzler the researchers are still trying to understand.

From Science Daily • Feb. 12, 2024

That makes me think about Skye, the puzzler, and the jigsaw piece she gave me.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman