jigsaw puzzle
noun
: a puzzle consisting of small irregularly cut pieces that are to be fitted together to form a picture
also
: something suggesting a jigsaw puzzle
Examples of jigsaw puzzle in a Sentence
We spent many nights working on a jigsaw puzzle of Mount Everest.
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When cooled, the tiles snapped together like a self-assembling jigsaw puzzle into one of three possible shapes, depending on the balance of DNA tile shapes in the mixture.
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Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
The Carmel couple set the Guinness World Record for the largest collection of jigsaw puzzles, which in Dec. 2023 numbered over 2,000.
—Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 16 May 2024
Yet as the movie continued, these dramatic fragments increasingly began to cohere into an organic whole, much like the pieces in a jigsaw puzzle.
—Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 24 May 2024
Facially harmless information could be the last piece in a jigsaw puzzle for foreign intelligence agencies.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 4 Mar. 2024
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Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
The Carmel couple set the Guinness World Record for the largest collection of jigsaw puzzles, which in Dec. 2023 numbered over 2,000.
—Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 16 May 2024
Yet as the movie continued, these dramatic fragments increasingly began to cohere into an organic whole, much like the pieces in a jigsaw puzzle.
—Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 24 May 2024
Facially harmless information could be the last piece in a jigsaw puzzle for foreign intelligence agencies.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 4 Mar. 2024
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“Jigsaw puzzle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jigsaw%20puzzle. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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