Example Sentences

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Armed with these new data, scientists will be puzzling over Mars’s history for years to come.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 15, 2021

His acolytes will be puzzling over it for decades.

From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2013

All of this appears designed to impart to the potential audience member the fact that much of what awaits them will be puzzling and arcane, and some of it simply unknowable.

From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2010

For anyone accustomed to entering a church quickly through its front door, the deferred gratification of Moneo's passageway will be puzzling.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some 80,000 youngsters will be puzzling their heads over them in this year's college boards.

From Time Magazine Archive