She is something of an enigma.
The newspapers were full of stories about the enigma of the plane's disappearance.
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Meaning of enigma in English
(Definition of enigma from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of enigma from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of enigma
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Adding to "the enigma of soil animal diversity": fungal feeders and saprophagous soil invertebrates prefer similar food substrates.
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The other possibilities should also be borne in mind when investigating tick toxicoses as the enigma of toxin origins for most tick toxins still exists.
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While questions remain concerning the dynamics of turbulent decay downstream from a grid, in comparison the dynamics of turbulent flames are a complete enigma.
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This enigma would be solved if one considers dourine as the chronic form of both diseases.
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Yet why bother to craft such an elaborate enigma for the title page?
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The basic enigma of music remains how its temporality may lead to an experiential likeliness of that which is beyond time.
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This indifference, however, is an enigma for thought.
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For those who do not subscribe to the natural law theory, the enigma is indecipherable.
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The poem thus begins with a small enigma.
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With all these multiple uses and potential ways of valuing musical enigmas, it is perhaps surprising that more are not found in print.
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A possible solution to this enigma is that the concentration of greenhouse gasses was much higher in the early atmosphere.
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Recent studies of his diplomacy embroider the enigma rather than unravelling it.
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The enigma version is in three parts; one may assume that a fourth part was added to the motet before its 1562 publication.
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Cerone's enigmas are intricate and impressive, and they must have been hugely expensive to produce.
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He cites numerous collections and studies of sixteenthand seventeenth-century enigmas and riddles.
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gizem, muamma, bilmece…
énigme…
raadsel…
záhada…
gåde, mysterium…
teka-teki…
ความลึกลับ…
điều bí ẩn…
enigma, zagadka…
gåta, mysterium…
membingungkan…
das Rätsel…
gåte, mysterium…
загадка…
загадка…
