puzzling

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A competing interpretation has emerged of the preliminary report's most puzzling detail: the brief movement of both fuel-control switches to "cutoff" shortly after take-off.

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2026

But as more analysts bang the drum, this puzzling quantum play might finally start making sense.

From Barron's • Jun. 15, 2026

U.S. authorities deny any part in the puzzling series of events, which involved a pair of 35-ton fishing craft — not the sleek speedboats typically pictured in Department of Defense videos of maritime strikes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2026

Astronomers have traced a mysterious type of repeating cosmic signal to an unusual pair of stars, providing the strongest evidence yet for the source of one of astronomy's most puzzling phenomena.

From Science Daily • Jun. 2, 2026

They talked about it among themselves, the four girls, as they often did now about the many puzzling things in this new country.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez