Thesaurus results for RIDDLES (OUT)

riddles (out)

verb

present tense third-person singular of riddle (out)

as in solves

to find an answer for through reasoning with the discovery of the Rosetta stone, archaeologists at long last were able to riddle out the mystery of Egyptian hieroglyphics

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Keep what users clearly value, remove what solves no proven need and rebuild only where the feedback shows a stronger path.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
For public transit commuters, an e-scooter solves the first-mile/last-mile challenge, bridging the gap between home, train stations, and office doors without relying on rideshare services or waiting for connecting buses.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 22 Sep. 2026

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Elaine unravels that mystery, weaving together the way insurance companies’ coverage decisions have shaped how these medicines are used.

— Amanda Erickson, STAT, 28 Sep. 2026
Among the 14 movies vying for the Golden Eye is Rhys Marc Jones’ Black Church Bay, a mystery-thriller starring Tom Cullen and Joe Locke about a man whose world unravels after an intimate encounter with a younger man.

— Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026

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Now, three years later, the internet creator, who goes by Brandon the Plant Guy, sells up to 5,000 plants a week, works out of a 3,000-square-foot greenhouse in Sylmar and has a staff of 13.

— Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Pricing for its latest creation starts at 890,740 euros, which works out to a little more than $1 million.

— Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of works out

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For Rivera, Friday’s sentencing will turn not only on the convictions returned by the jury but on how Damian resolves competing views of their seriousness and the sentencing guidelines that apply.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 29 Sep. 2026
The finding resolves a long-running question about the material’s electrical behavior.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2026

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