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That endurance suggests that enigmatic structures found in the early rock record have a better chance of being pseudofossils, rather than actual fossils, the team says.

He also was an assistant to Bobby Fischer when the enigmatic American player claimed the world championship from Soviet grandmaster Boris Spassky in the dramatic 1972 match where the Cold War played out atop a chess table.

In our paper about ORCs, which is forthcoming in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, we run through all the possibilities and conclude these enigmatic blobs don’t look like anything we already know about.

A genuine mysteryIn our paper about ORCs, which is forthcoming in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, we run through all the possibilities and conclude these enigmatic blobs don’t look like anything we already know about.

The skull fossil clears up a lot of confusion about this amphibian group’s lifestyle, Gardner says, but in other ways, albanerpetontids remain as enigmatic as ever.

And, as the enigmatic front man to an avant garde indie rock group, he is droll, perceptive, and splendidly weird.

Bolotov has been the most enigmatic of eastern Ukrainian leaders on this score.

Unlike her children and grandchildren, she has kept the brand intact: ever-present, ever-smiling, but ever-enigmatic.

Not since Gwyneth Paltrow's “conscious uncoupling” has one term been so intriguing, and so enigmatic.

Betty Draper burst onto the small screen with an undeniable presence befitting the wife of the enigmatic Don Draper.

Thurstane's blue-black eyes studied this enigmatic being steadily and almost angrily.

Shelburne, his former leader, he would not invite, for he could not endure his habitually enigmatic conduct.

At first they were covert and enigmatic, then merely ambiguous, and finally undisguised, and containing the bitterest reflections.

This young man was again the dark-faced, clear-eyed Roy, droll and dry, with the enigmatic smile on his lips.

The girl was an enigmatic creature, silent, self-absorbed, shrinking from the give-and-take of social life.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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