as in enigma
something hard to understand or explain
why my sister married that guy is still a mystery to my parents
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Recent Examples of mystery
As Osment previously told EW, the title also carries a bit of mystery.
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Randall Colburn, EW.com, 16 May 2025
The Electric Sun offers new ways to customize the game with new magic and new mysteries.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Your mind is keen to entertain itself with mental games, puzzles, mysteries and interesting diversions.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 16 May 2025
White shirts gleam with Tide-strength brightness, and khakis remain unblemished by mystery grease stains.
—Deborah Solomon, New York Times, 15 May 2025
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Randall Colburn, EW.com, 16 May 2025
The Electric Sun offers new ways to customize the game with new magic and new mysteries.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Your mind is keen to entertain itself with mental games, puzzles, mysteries and interesting diversions.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 16 May 2025
White shirts gleam with Tide-strength brightness, and khakis remain unblemished by mystery grease stains.
—Deborah Solomon, New York Times, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mystery
Noun
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An underused Baranski delivers her usual dazzle as Victoria, and Kidman once again commits fully to the steely Russian enigma known as Masha.—
Kristen Baldwin,
EW.com,
19 May 2025
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The character is an enigma, the focus of one of the series’ biggest mysteries.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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These puzzles required the participants to fill in the blanks on a series of two-tone images with minimal detail.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
15 May 2025
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This was a bit of a lateral thinking puzzle: A husband and wife are driving down a road one night when the car runs out of gas.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2025
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Each puzzle book is 32 pages and has a wide variety of puzzles, including sticker puzzles, word searches, Mad Libs–style storytelling, and riddles.—
Adrienne So,
Wired News,
17 May 2025
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Philosophers are in a unique place to solve this riddle as current events are largely trivial in their work.—
Theodore McDarrah,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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To have this ability to contain secrets but to withhold them and have this facade with Michaela that’s totally different than the relationship with her sister, to keep all those plates spinning, that’s a tall order.—
Lauren Coates,
Variety,
24 May 2025
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Surprised that John exposed her secret, Claire explains.—
Liza Esquibias,
People.com,
24 May 2025
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The platform ran into problems Thursday, when nearly 6,000 users reported issues with X’s website and app.—
Antonio Pequeño IV,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2025
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The problems started shortly after 8 a.m. ET Saturday and within an hour, there were 11,871 reports logged.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 May 2025
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“Mystery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mystery. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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