- present participle of puzzle.
puzzling
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An even more puzzling question concerns how the butterflies identify suitable mates.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026
The term “artificial intelligence” wasn’t in common use, but the Los Angeles Mirror, a now-defunct afternoon newspaper, was telling readers about a puzzling development at a Southern California computer manufacturing company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
One problem scientists and Wall Street are puzzling over is that a different study showed using Keytruda alone before surgery appeared to produce a similar result to the vaccine in certain melanoma patients.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Even more puzzling, astronomers have not reliably identified a pair of supermassive black holes orbiting extremely close together, despite abundant evidence of colliding galaxies.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
That seems especially puzzling and self-defeating, since a microbe that kills its host kills itself.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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