riddle
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Powell tiptoed away from saying how the Fed would answer that riddle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 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
That day’s riddle, even though it was a card Kyle had never seen before, had been extra easy.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
While he emanated confidence, he was riddled with doubts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Software engineer Simon Martin, 44, who lives in Ancoats, recounted how a cab driver told him he would have hesitated once to pick him up, when the area was riddled with crime.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Critics have accused the program of being riddled with fraud and abuse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
And that was before the surf zone became riddled with rocks, logs, rods, pipes and wires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
As they descended, they found themselves in an area riddled with crevasses and realized they were on a glacier.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
The next movement, dedicated to Smith’s mother, is more traditionally notated — and offers the riddling complexity that Smith builds from motivic repetition.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2022
“Gone Girl” bombards us with testimonies, letters, phone calls, riddling treasure hunt clues and the aforementioned diary entries, prodding us to read smarter.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 12, 2022
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
A triptych tells riddling tales of masters and servants, with the same two actors playing all the roles, in two sumptuous gardens at an Italian villa.
From The New Yorker ● May 6, 2019
‘Are the riddling words known to you that Boromir brought to Rivendell?’
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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