enigma
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It’s hard to imagine an audience resisting the temptation to have the enigma central to the play’s meaning clarified, given its prominence in the plot and the drama’s woolly elusiveness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
I have now spoken to more patients and doctors about why this condition remains such an enigma.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
It’s Seyfried who elevates “The Housemaid” from guilty pleasure status, making it an exhilarating enigma at one moment and genuinely affecting the next.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2026
But she said the film, which goes on global release on Friday and will later be shown exclusively on Amazon Prime, would give people a look behind the enigma.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
“They'll die without knowing why,” Amaranta answered when she was asked through Úrsula, and that answer planted an enigma in Fernanda's heart that she was never able to clarify.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Despite decades of study, dark energy remains one of science's most puzzling enigmas.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2025
Since Watson is a sucker for enigmas, he surrounds himself with a team of young experts, each of whom is defined by one of their own.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025
Considering how efficiently the movie sets up its rules, the filmmakers opt to shatter one of its central, compelling enigmas by attempting to explain it in a poorly written scene toward the end.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025
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
That there are such feminine enigmas no student of humanity will deny.
From Nevermore by Bolderwood, Rolf
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