stumped
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In a year of unthinkable math progress, as increasingly powerful AI systems have cracked conjectures that had long stumped humans, OpenAI published a breakthrough on Tuesday that represents the most significant advance yet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
ChatGPT-style AI is revolutionizing the world of high-level math by quickly solving famous, long-unsolved problems that stumped experts for decades.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
The 12-year-old drugmaker, more commonly known as RevMed, had spent much of its existence trying to solve a scientific puzzle that had stumped some of the industry’s leading researchers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
In the fifth over, Sooryavanshi looked primed to attack the off-spin of Will Jacks, only to run past a flatter one and be stumped.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Thinking all the time was too much even for Francis, and often when he was stumped by his equations he used to pump my reservoir of phage lore.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
