riddle
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The fundamental problem exposed by the latest court fight is that no one has a solution to the riddle of apportionment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
They seem to enjoy the riddle, the ritual of digging themselves out of self-inflicted trouble—the crowd roaring back to life, the panicked look in their opponents’ eyes as they grind down another double-digit lead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
I mean, the reason to be optimistic is because humans are amazing problem-solving riddle crackers, right?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
A 48-46 defeat, settled by a France penalty with the clock in the red, only adds to the riddle.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
Dr. Rachel Lance leads a team of Duke University researchers seeking answers to the riddle of the Hunley.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
Software engineer Simon Martin, 44, who lives in Ancoats, recounted how a cab driver told him he would have hesitated once to pick him up, when the area was riddled with crime.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
The findings show that the system is riddled with procedural obstacles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
“Lineage’s statement is riddled with misinformation in a blatant attempt to deflect blame for their role in this matter,” a company representative said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Sanft has also said prosecution witnesses were unreliable and the police investigation was riddled with issues.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
As they descended, they found themselves in an area riddled with crevasses and realized they were on a glacier.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
Ireland wholeheartedly embraced the potato, riddling its soils with a vine that, when it is good, is very, very good, but when it goes bad, dies en masse.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2023
You can’t help but like her even though she’s oblivious to the way her privilege provides insulation and her prescriptions turn out to be riddling and fickle.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2022
Rebranded as Súil, a Gaelic word meaning “hope,” the sparkling viognier is still made by hand through riddling, disgorging and recorking, and in limited quantities.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2021
He also served as a source for my notorious 1993 article “The Death of Proof,” which reported that “the doubts riddling modern human thought have finally infected mathematics.”
From Scientific American ● Sep. 15, 2019
This riddling figure with flinty eyes isn’t the Locke who stood on the rooftop of his estate and spoke so gently to me or who chased me, laughing, through its halls.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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