enigma
noun
a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation.
enigmas
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pluralof enigma.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Artists know that enigmas bring us closer to the truth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025
Despite decades of study, dark energy remains one of science's most puzzling enigmas.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2025
Since Watson is a sucker for enigmas, he surrounds himself with a team of young experts, each of whom is defined by one of their own.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025
Under the rules, the finder has to show that they correctly solved the enigmas and did not just stumble upon the owl by chance.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2024
We have won our scraps of spiritual experience, our messages from behind the veil; we can try them in their connection with certain enigmas which philosophy hardly hoped to be able to put to proof.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
