as in mysteries
something hard to understand or explain
the final fate of the colonists at Roanoke remains a puzzle to this very day
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as in baffles
to throw into a state of mental uncertainty
it is the cause of the disease that puzzles doctors
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Recent Examples of puzzles
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
The launch will see the game give fans the opportunity to flex their football knowledge with 32-team specific puzzles.
—Dj Siddiqi, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The Fed is dealing with one of its most complicated economic puzzles in decades.
—Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
Moreover, neither of these scenarios, nor the now-default direct collapse scenario, can do anything to either alleviate the Hubble tension or to explain the puzzles associated with large-scale structure observation and its implications for dark energy or for neutrino masses.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025
With several games remaining free to play for all, our portfolio features a dynamic mix of free puzzles and subscriber-only offerings, creating opportunities for every kind of solver to engage with us, every day of the week.
—Jillian Frankel, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Doing activities like puzzles can also help keep the mind engaged.
—Pamela Assid, Verywell Health, 25 Aug. 2025
The sale also features many puzzles and other specialty items.
—Sharon Hlapcich, Oc Register, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
Each linguistic slip is a chance for Nabokovian adjectives to bloom, for Lockwood’s poetic puzzles to click into place.
—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
The launch will see the game give fans the opportunity to flex their football knowledge with 32-team specific puzzles.
—Dj Siddiqi, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The Fed is dealing with one of its most complicated economic puzzles in decades.
—Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
Moreover, neither of these scenarios, nor the now-default direct collapse scenario, can do anything to either alleviate the Hubble tension or to explain the puzzles associated with large-scale structure observation and its implications for dark energy or for neutrino masses.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025
With several games remaining free to play for all, our portfolio features a dynamic mix of free puzzles and subscriber-only offerings, creating opportunities for every kind of solver to engage with us, every day of the week.
—Jillian Frankel, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Doing activities like puzzles can also help keep the mind engaged.
—Pamela Assid, Verywell Health, 25 Aug. 2025
The sale also features many puzzles and other specialty items.
—Sharon Hlapcich, Oc Register, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for puzzles
Noun
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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
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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
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One case that still baffles is the macabre story of Virginia McCullough, who killed her parents for their money – and then lived with their bodies for four years.—
KC Baker,
People.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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And so an urban tunnel not only blocks some satellites, but confuses the listeners as to which are direct or reflected signals.—
Steve Tengler,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Wedged in the far southeastern corner of the bottom of the continent, between South Africa and Mozambique, Eswatini is the last absolute monarchy in Africa, a status that bewilders modernizers and beguiles traditionalists.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Puzzles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puzzles. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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