puzzling
adjective
puz·zling
ˈpə-zə-liŋ 
ˈpəz-liŋ
: difficult to understand or solve
puzzling symptoms
puzzlingly
adverb
Examples of puzzling in a Sentence
The directions are somewhat puzzling.
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Chris Coffey, a political strategist who worked on Andrew Yang’s unsuccessful 2021 mayoral run, noted petitioning in the 2025 race starts next week, making Adams’ apparent lack of a campaign operation more puzzling.
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Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2025
But a deeper look at the data also suggests something more puzzling: the Gen Z voters who overwhelmingly helped propel Joe Biden to the White House in 2020 are not the same Gen Z voters who backed a second Trump term in 2024.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
And that leads us back to the most puzzling of The Witcher’s hanging chads: a second spinoff, codenamed Riff Raff and created by Witcher writer Haily Hall, which was partially filmed but never formally announced.
—Scott Meslow, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2025
What’s puzzling is that, in both of these severe cases, the virus was not related to the virus that is circulating in cattle.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2025
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Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2025
But a deeper look at the data also suggests something more puzzling: the Gen Z voters who overwhelmingly helped propel Joe Biden to the White House in 2020 are not the same Gen Z voters who backed a second Trump term in 2024.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
And that leads us back to the most puzzling of The Witcher’s hanging chads: a second spinoff, codenamed Riff Raff and created by Witcher writer Haily Hall, which was partially filmed but never formally announced.
—Scott Meslow, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2025
What’s puzzling is that, in both of these severe cases, the virus was not related to the virus that is circulating in cattle.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for puzzling
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“Puzzling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/puzzling. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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