riddle
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They seem to enjoy the riddle, the ritual of digging themselves out of self-inflicted trouble—the crowd roaring back to life, the panicked look in their opponents’ eyes as they grind down another double-digit lead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 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
As I closed my eyes, I began to ponder the riddle of the Jade Key.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
And being riddled with all the cliched insecurities that every other actor, when you’re playing it, you go, “God, this feels great. To not even have to try with people must be so wonderful.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 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
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
"They just have a team in the forward areas that is riddled with superstars," former Scotland striker Ally McCoist told ITV Sport.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
At the river’s edge they filled forever jars riddled with holes, so that the water poured away and they must return to fill them again, and again see them drained dry.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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
You can’t help but like her even though she’s oblivious to the way her privilege provides insulation and her prescriptions turn out to be riddling and fickle.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2022
“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
‘We have a work to do, and this is no time or place for riddling or parleying. Come! Where is the third of your company?’
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act III
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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