enigma
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For many Americans, the price of prescription drugs is an enigma.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
I have now spoken to more patients and doctors about why this condition remains such an enigma.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
Enter Digby, a handsome, quick-witted and wealthy enigma who smells faintly of fig.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
Most of my book is devoted to trying to sort out this political enigma, and how the movement and its consequences might be understood.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2026
He was away in a mystery, locked in the enigma that young Southern Black boys start to unravel, start to try to unravel, from seven years old to death.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
Not that he necessarily wants those enigmas solved: “I want there to be some mystery left in the world.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2025
While this does not seem to be reflected on the stones themselves, that does not mean there are not more enigmas about the sun stones which need to be cracked.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2025
However, there are still many enigmas about the molecular mechanisms that would explain the anomalies that make the water molecule unique.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2024
Under the rules, the finder has to show that they correctly solved the enigmas and did not just stumble upon the owl by chance.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2024
But with these facts a host of new enigmas has been presented.
From Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach
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