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Meanings of riddle in английском
Statement or question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved.
Any problem where the answer is very complex, possibly unsolvable without deep investigation.
Synonyms
Examples for "enigma"
Examples for "enigma"
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Think of it: perhaps the enigma would, at last, prove me right.
2
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.
4
The presence of water in the Earth has long been an enigma.
5
Back in my mind was buzzing the enigma of the Blind Spot.
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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?'
3
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.
2
Afterward, stop by the nature-themed gift shop, which sells gifts, books, toys and brain-teaser souvenirs.
3
On a calendar of increasingly uniform, anodyne circuits, the streets of Monaco are a pitching, swerving, unreadable brain-teaser.
4
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?
Usage of riddle in английском
1
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.
3
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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The return of the dead is the eternal riddle of the living.
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Nevertheless, intimacy represents an enigmatic riddle for the majority of these men.
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In the Berkeley Court hotel in Dublin yesterday, it was riddle time.
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All questioning was vain; her heart gave no solution of the riddle.
10
He opened the door wider to the nocturnal riddle of the house.
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We can't forget to carry that forward, one riddle to the next.
12
In this way I made a start at working out the riddle.
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There is something, after all, in the unguessed riddle of the Sphinx.
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This error alone gave him now an opportunity to unravel the riddle.
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Once a supernational riddle appears, it's really up to the technical types-
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He himself did not find the solution of the riddle at once.
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Translations for riddle
русский
каталонский
Riddle through the time
Riddle across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Less common