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Example sentences for: puzzle

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After such an exposition it is small wonder to me when I occasionally see, beneath The [London] Times crossword puzzle, “This puzzle was completed by 80 per cent of the contestants in 22 minutes” in a recent competition.
The final piece of the puzzle arrived at the CIA's Bin Ladin unit on August 28 in a cable reporting that KSM's nickname was Mukhtar.
But the President's senior advisers saw the al Qaeda problem as part of a puzzle that could not be assembled without filling in the pieces for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Puzzle solvers seem to fall into two categories, those who use reference books to help them find the right answers and those who eschew any aids whatsoever.
It is a puzzle why certain objects acquire backwords while others retain their names and it is the newcomers that are given qualifying labels.