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  • Such messengers are said to deliver their messages in obscure forms, and so he tries to remember all of the riddles and paradoxes and conundrums he has ever known: The way down is the way up.†  (source)
  • A spiritual conundrum, Langdon thought.†  (source)
  • How I had failed to notice for two and a half days a 450-pound Bengal tiger in a lifeboat twenty-six feet long was a conundrum I would have to try to crack later, when I had more energy.†  (source)
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  • A very, very small part of my head considered the interesting conundrum presented in this situation.†  (source)
  • I'd been torturing myself with these pointless circular conundrums all day.†  (source)
  • This fresh burst of culture shock rattles the jeek out of his ethical conundrum.†  (source)
  • He was fascinated by riddles and codes and conundrums and labyrinths, by the origin of place names, by grammar, by slang, by jokes—although he never laughed at them—by anything that might mean something else.†  (source)
  • Nick and I are currently embroiled in what I have taken to calling (to myself) the Cuckoo Clock Conundrum.†  (source)
  • How little, after all, did I know about this urban world up beyond the Potomac, with its ethnic conundrums and complexities.†  (source)
  • Conundrum-a three-point vocab word.†  (source)
  • A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums.†  (source)
  • To meet these guys in these remote Pashtun villages only made the conundrum more difficult.†  (source)
  • He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension præternatural.†  (source)
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