How to Use conundrum in a Sentence

conundrum

noun
  • This is a big conundrum for me.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Feb. 2026
  • There are so many of these moral conundrums in this one shift.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025
  • No one is more aware of this conundrum than Shiffrin.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026
  • T-shirts will always get you out of a style conundrum.
    India Roby, Glamour, 18 May 2026
  • This is a conundrum for the Democrats.
    Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Some of the cases were conundrums for the board.
    Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The formula that beats this conundrum came to me on a golf course.
    Gaurav Kumar, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Barra is now faced with the conundrum about what to do about Cruise.
    Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023
  • That puts them in a bit of a conundrum here, albeit one with an easy answer.
    Vulture, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Nothing eases the conundrums of life like a chance to twist and shout.
    David Sturm, Howard County Times, 18 May 2018
  • This proved to be a conundrum for the Vikings who could make two choices.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
  • But simply reaching land is far from the end of the conundrum.
    Eleni Giokos, CNN Money, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Its plans to reduce child poverty have thus far been stymied by this conundrum.
    Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 24 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • And along with all those leaves comes the annual conundrum ― what to do with the leaves.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 11 Oct. 2024
  • At the scene that night, Vasquez stood at the center of a tragedy and a conundrum.
    Seyward Darby, Longreads, 13 Dec. 2022
  • More cameras on the sky could help solve such cosmic conundrums.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 12 June 2026
  • 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
  • This is, frankly, the easiest fix for my styling conundrum.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Lockwood exploits that conundrum, and even takes part in it.
    Joshua Minsoo Kim, Pitchfork, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The conundrum began with the bases loaded and one out in the sixth inning.
    Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 6 July 2021
  • The conundrum of that ad wasn’t lost on the author Rona Jaffe.
    Apoorva Tadepalli, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The Chicago Bears are a bit of a conundrum.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Truly this is the chicken and the egg conundrum of award season.
    Los Angeles Times Staff, latimes.com, 17 Sep. 2017
  • This presents somewhat of a conundrum for head coach Steve Kerr.
    Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 2 Dec. 2020
  • How can Israel avoid this kind of conundrum in the future?
    Meredith Wolf Schizer, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • This, in fact, would be the basis of Aburn's design conundrum.
    Roxanne Robinson, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • What better time to contemplate the conundrum that is zero than the start of a new year?
    Regina G. Barber, NPR, 2 Jan. 2026

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