riddle
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It was Carney’s first crack at a riddle that would come to bedevil governments on both sides of the Atlantic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
A 48-46 defeat, settled by a France penalty with the clock in the red, only adds to the riddle.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
But the cyclops can’t solve the simplest of riddles and the increasingly exasperated maidens, who’ll be free once a riddle is solved, can’t get them to stop approaching the cave or from making terrible guesses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2026
John Parker believes he has solved the riddle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026
Sierra imagined her mom as a young girl, sleeping as Mama Carmen sang the shadowshapers’ riddle to her.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
SpaceX’s route to achieving its grand connectivity vision for Starlink is riddled with multibillion-dollar problems and would require decades’ worth of catching up, according to MoffettNathanson analysts.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026
McElwee’s last documentary, 2011’s “Photographic Memory,” saw Adrian as a young adult, trying to come into his own and figure out his place in life amid a shifting social landscape riddled with digital black holes.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
First, practice distinguishing between what the Constitution says and what judges and justices say about the Constitution, a document riddled with aspirational vagaries and flexible abstractions.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
Legal fights have clogged courts for years, with cases riddled with allegations of corruption and deed forgery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
It was big and swollen and riddled with crevices and white, scarred blemishes.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
Ireland wholeheartedly embraced the potato, riddling its soils with a vine that, when it is good, is very, very good, but when it goes bad, dies en masse.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2023
“Lou Grant” went on like that for five years, riddling the moral dramas of imperfect humans trying to do good work when their only tool was a sledgehammer.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2021
He also served as a source for my notorious 1993 article “The Death of Proof,” which reported that “the doubts riddling modern human thought have finally infected mathematics.”
From Scientific American ● Sep. 15, 2019
He’s a difficult poet — allusive, riddling, satirical, strange.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2016
No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act III
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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