puzzling
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Nguyen Minh Dong, a former Volkswagen emissions engineer who now advises on electrification, called the rush to ban fossil fuel bikes in Hanoi "puzzling".
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
Few concepts in physics are as familiar, or as puzzling, as time itself.
From Science Daily • May 18, 2026
The paper, which was published April 27 in Nature Neuroscience, answers a puzzling question about the mechanism controlling this long-observed cerebral movement.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026
Why cancer has been increasing in people's late teens, 20s, 30s and 40s has been puzzling scientists for years.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
Marshall was puzzling over his buttons, which were on the wrong side, and he didn’t answer.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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