puzzle (out)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for puzzle (out)
Verb
  • Red Bull has been struggling to solve issues with its RB21 F1 car, as McLaren drivers Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris dominate the grid for the 2025 championship.
    Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 July 2025
  • But if Grier and McDaniel get the culture right this time that goes a long way toward solving problems of the past few years.
    Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 19 July 2025
Verb
  • As Beth, Louis-Dreyfus is filled with surface confidence and performs her writerly role with ease—until the smallest crack appears and her sense of self begins to quietly unravel.
    Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
  • Lucy Fry’s Rose, a woman haunted by trauma, ends up checking herself into an inn where reality seems to unravel, blurring the lines between past and present, and waking life and dreams.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2025
Verb
  • Lamine answered questions in Catalan from the Catalan press and others in Spanish, and towards the end of a press conference, he was asked about his activities away from the pitch.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
  • The agency failed to answer thousands of calls from flood survivors after allowing contracts for call-center workers to lapse one day after the disaster, according to The New York Times.
    Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 15 July 2025
Verb
  • While the situation took a lot longer to figure out than fans would have liked, the end result was what everyone was hoping to see.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 July 2025
  • Everybody is trying to figure out how to utilize AI best to deal with too many meetings, too many tools, and too many people who are quietly quitting.
    Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
Verb
  • In cases against another person or business, people are often trying to win damages, which can get complicated as judges resolve who deserves a share of the money and how much.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 22 July 2025
  • Once leadership alignment is resolved, P&L performance accelerates—often within a single quarter.
    Carrie Moore, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
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“Puzzle (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puzzle%20%28out%29. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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