riddle
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When the anonymous clues take a spooky turn, Felix calls on an unlikely ally to help him solve the final riddle and bring the scavenger hunt to a close.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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
‘Nobody knows. All we have is a riddle.’
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
The findings show that the system is riddled with procedural obstacles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Narenthiran added the prison system was riddled with "lost people" who do not have anyone to advocate for them due to language barriers or a lack of family.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
When the second-largest U.S. bank discloses its quarterly financial results, analysts have to decipher the lexicon of CEO Brian Moynihan, riddled with obscure, archaic words fit for novelists or judges of bygone centuries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
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
He paused and for a moment seemed to study his hands, which were riddled with liver spots and trembled at times: Nels suffered from an advancing neurasthenia.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
A.I. will never pose a threat to the real thing — to writing with convictions, honest doubts, riddling wit, a personal vision of the world, rawness and originality.
From New York Times ● May 1, 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
Gaffney’s focus on human/equine body language is fascinating, especially in the way it helps her discern the weaknesses riddling some of the hard cases she’s dealing with.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2020
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
This riddling figure with flinty eyes isn’t the Locke who stood on the rooftop of his estate and spoke so gently to me or who chased me, laughing, through its halls.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act III
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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