head-scratchers

plural of head-scratcher
as in mysteries
something hard to understand or explain why he chose to sink all of his money into a failing business is a real head-scratcher

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Noun
  • And all the various mysteries come to a head in the final two episodes and are wrapped up nicely.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Let’s delve into the 11 most compelling UFO sightings across the globe – incidents with documentation, official investigation, and mysteries that have persisted for decades despite analysis.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Unexplained aerial phenomena, commonly branded as UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) and more recently as UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena), remain one of history’s most enduring enigmas.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
  • These cosmic enigmas defy our everyday understanding of space and time, swallowing light and matter and pushing the laws of physics to the extreme.
    Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Each linguistic slip is a chance for Nabokovian adjectives to bloom, for Lockwood’s poetic puzzles to click into place.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Players will visit stunning new locations, solve intricate puzzles, battle dangerous cultists, and encounter an epic new enemy in a classically thrilling Indiana Jones adventure.
    Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Head-scratchers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/head-scratchers. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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