How to Use conundrum in a Sentence

conundrum

noun
  • Yet at the core of this conundrum is the question of trust.
    Star Tribune, 13 Jan. 2021
  • Hats have long been the source of quite a packing conundrum.
    Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2021
  • Finding the right pair of dress shoes is quite a conundrum.
    Michelle Rostamian, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The conundrum began with the bases loaded and one out in the sixth inning.
    Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 6 July 2021
  • Here are five things to know about the cookie conundrum.
    Jeanne Houck, The Enquirer, 14 Mar. 2023
  • At the scene that night, Vasquez stood at the center of a tragedy and a conundrum.
    Seyward Darby, Longreads, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The formula that beats this conundrum came to me on a golf course.
    Gaurav Kumar, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Nothing eases the conundrums of life like a chance to twist and shout.
    David Sturm, Howard County Times, 18 May 2018
  • Putting the two side by side gives us the Obama conundrum.
    Armond White, National Review, 14 July 2017
  • There are a variety of ways to solve this conundrum — but the time to talk it out is now.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Facing the conundrum of what shoes to wear to keep the dress off the sidewalk without adding too much flair?
    The Cut, 19 July 2017
  • Now, for the real conundrum: choosing the best games to play first.
    WIRED, 19 Nov. 2022
  • This is the conundrum around the future of precision medicine.
    Dario Gil, Scientific American, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Barra is now faced with the conundrum about what to do about Cruise.
    Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Truly this is the chicken and the egg conundrum of award season.
    Los Angeles Times Staff, latimes.com, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Dr. Faust said of the conundrum facing many of her peers.
    Rachel L. Swarns, New York Times, 10 July 2016
  • That puts them in a bit of a conundrum here, albeit one with an easy answer.
    Vulture, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The space junk conundrum is one that has caused quite a bit of concern with astronomers for many years now.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The conundrum of that ad wasn’t lost on the author Rona Jaffe.
    Apoorva Tadepalli, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Physicists solve an age-old conundrum: the chicken or the egg.
    Fox News, 6 Sep. 2018
  • It’s one of the many factors that makes this a unique conundrum and, for now, stalemate.
    Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Both sides would be correct, and therein lies the conundrum.
    Star Tribune, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The modern-day version of this conundrum is why smug Robert from sales got the job and not you.
    Sarah Todd, Quartz, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Get ready to solve your summer travel wardrobe conundrums in just a few clicks.
    Kristine Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2023
  • So Trump is not having -- this is the conundrum for Trump.
    Fox News, 6 Aug. 2018
  • The airport outfit conundrum this time of year is very real.
    Max Berlinger, GQ, 27 June 2017
  • This is just a horrible conundrum most of all for Ukraine.
    ABC News, 3 Apr. 2022
  • Yet the bullish outlook for oil presents another kind of conundrum.
    Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
  • That seems even more important now, but that’s what makes this such a huge conundrum for me.
    Kyle Fredrickson, The Denver Post, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Each meeting has intricacies and conundrums that cannot be solved with a quick click of a mouse.
    Harold Goldberg, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2018

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