unriddle
Americanverb (used with object)
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As I drank, I became aware that I was perched on the edge of my seat, fully at attention as I attempted to unriddle its intriguing, distantly familiar contents.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2024
In Marsala, I went back for seconds then thirds of Ristorante I Bucanieri's eggplant parm, trying to unriddle its confoundingly luxe texture.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2023
She told me that Wallace's crush was "a mystery I haven't been able to unriddle."
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2012
The most nonsensical notion, the most casual slip of the tongue, the most fantastic dream, must have a meaning and can be used to unriddle the often incomprehensible maneuvers we call thinking.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Has no one attempted to unriddle it before now?"
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 by Various
Jackie Gervercer tended bar and oversaw the cocktail menu, meaning she likely contrived the sugared rim and the addition of egg whites, which writer Chuck Sudo unriddled back in 2012 for the Chicagoist.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2021
Over time, I've unriddled a few secrets to a better French press brew.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2021
Ginsberg’s system handled the grid, and the colder mathematical side of things, searching and placing answers, while the Berkeley team’s system unriddled the hazier, “human” side of the language of the clues, crosswords’ music.
From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2021
There is mystery about Zita's male parentage which, when unriddled, restores society to good standing in the woods and Zita to her rich lover.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were no dark iron bars across her life for her soul to clutch and shake madly,—nothing "in the world amiss, to be unriddled by and by."
From Margret Howth, a Story of To-day by Rebecca Harding Davis
Modern art may be a riddle to most people, but there are always experts indefatigably willing to try unriddling it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Phineas Finn was bent on unriddling the Irish sphinx.
From The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
Now give me my tea—I’m famishing—and after that we’ll talk of this new riddle that needs unriddling for the honour of the Yard.
From Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories by Thomas W. Hanshew
Thorstein answered: "In evil and unfriendly wise is the dream interpreted, nor do I deem thee fit for the work of unriddling dreams."
From The Story Of Gunnlaug The Worm-Tongue And Raven The Skald 1875 by William Morris
There is still lacking a complete unriddling of the three-cornered game of diplomacy played in America in March and April, 1861.
From Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson
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