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puzzle | American Dictionary

puzzle
noun[ C ]
us/ˈpʌz·əl/
something that is difficult to understand:
Their son is a puzzle to them.
The police are trying to solve the puzzle of who sent them the letter.
A puzzle is also a game or toy in which you have to fit separate pieces together, or a problem or question which you have to answer by using your skill or knowledge:
a jigsaw/crossword puzzle

puzzled

adjectiveus/ˈpʌz·əld/
She looked puzzled, then suspicious.

Examples of puzzle

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Thus, no satisfactory solution has been offered so far for this typological puzzle.
In general, there is agreement that all of the approaches capture different pieces of the puzzle, while no single indicator can yield a complete picture.
At first sight, it seems rather puzzling that the children are eventually able to answer the father's question positively.
Through experimentation with the individual income processes, we were able to identify some economic environments in which these puzzles could be resolved.
For instance, the explanation of the equity premium puzzle is relatively satisfying: spectral results are as good as those obtained in the traditional approach.
However, we argue that scenarios conceptually equivalent to the muddy children puzzle can occur in robotics.
This puzzle indicates the importance of treating action ascriptions among participants in joint acts differently from action ascription generally.
The argument points to major analytical advantages to studying governments' policy choices in intertemporal terms, for both the identification of comparative puzzles and their explanation.
Numbers at the branch nodes indicates percentage quartet puzzling support values for 1000 puzzling steps.
If it is not easy to puzzle out quite what this practice meant, it most certainly is tangled up with notions of gender organisation.
Rather, the key to the puzzle of where the revelation originated, according to both scholars, is provided by the modern notion of the unconscious.
Separate areas provided opportunities for housekeeping, blocks, puzzles, games, and precast and manipulative toy play activities, as well as an option for individual reading.
The analytical puzzle for many thus looks to be why some regions have grown so much more rapidly than others.
Indeterminacy and the sunspot do not increase these statistics and therefore do not alleviate the severity of the equity premium and other financial puzzles.
I was initially puzzled to discover that songs to highland swidden deities had been incorporated into a regular lowland domestic rite.
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