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Meanings of enigma in English
Any problem where the answer is very complex, possibly unsolvable without deep investigation.
Synonyms
Examples for "riddle"
Examples for "riddle"
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Not so; you used the riddle and I but spoke in kind.
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For two days I'd carried the riddle of Project Nemesis inside me.
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How had he not been able to work out this riddle earlier?
4
And in the riddle of Cleobulus, one of the seven wise men:
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One day Ish heard him asking a riddle of the other children.
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Why We Need Peer-to-Peer So Badly This conundrum has no easy resolution.
2
And everybody has to deal with that thirteen-year-old's conundrum: 'Am I real?'
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The current bout of good weather has brought with it a conundrum.
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Impact investing has been posited as a possible solution to this conundrum.
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This is the heart of the conundrum for Ireland and the EU.
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The Football Association have missed the obvious solution to their FA Cup draw brain-teaser.
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Afterward, stop by the nature-themed gift shop, which sells gifts, books, toys and brain-teaser souvenirs.
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On a calendar of increasingly uniform, anodyne circuits, the streets of Monaco are a pitching, swerving, unreadable brain-teaser.
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Instead of creating brain-teaser titles, the company announced this week that it will develop a Quake-style combat game called Assault!
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It took me a few moments to piece it all together, like some sort of brain-teaser in a quiz book-lampshadeor profile?
Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained.
European association.
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Usage of enigma in English
1
Think of it: perhaps the enigma would, at last, prove me right.
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Today might see the answer to the enigma contained in the chronicles.
3
Continue tracking enigma warships and engage them if the opportunity presents itself.
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The presence of water in the Earth has long been an enigma.
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Back in my mind was buzzing the enigma of the Blind Spot.
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You intend taking your fleet into space controlled by the enigma race.
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The princess and myself have vainly searched the key to the enigma.
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There's an enigma installation on the second largest moon orbiting that planet.
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He was exhilarating company at times, but he was also an enigma.
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Garrett always struck me as sort of an enigma, she finally said.
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The problem of existence was answered only by the enigma of annihilation.
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After all these years, Yi Kong still remained an enigma to me.
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But then Sir Stephen had given him the key to the enigma.
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He raised it to eye-level, and sighted towards that impossible, mind-shaking enigma.
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Since time immemorial we have been pondering the enigma of our world.
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But to the initiated, there was an easier solution of the enigma.
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Enigma through the time
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