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puzzling
[ puhz-ling ]
adjective
- confusing or baffling:
a puzzling answer.
noun
- the skill or pastime of constructing or working crossword or other puzzles.
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- puzzling·ly adverb
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Example Sentences
The name of Barabbas is worth looking at closely, as it makes the story more challenging as well puzzling.
The choice of targets for U.S. warplanes is increasingly puzzling.
Whether the lack of liberal involvement in the museum is the result of commission or omission, it is puzzling.
First, it is puzzling that Facebook ever finds itself in a privacy fight at all.
With midterm elections on the horizon, the timing is particularly puzzling.
This new appreciation of his character clarifies various incidents heretofore puzzling to me.
He therefore put a variety of puzzling questions, and took down a good many notes.
Writing in dialect makes many of his stories puzzling, if not impossible for foreign readers.
Meantime, Joe had been puzzling his wits and wishing his wife was there to devise some plan for the wayfarer.
A rather pleasing, yet puzzling, deception is to pass a dollar bill into the interior of an examined lemon or apple.
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