noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
remain
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Jim remains an enigma , penetrated through action only to a certain point.
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Louisiana, though penetrated, remained an enigma .
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But despite all the efforts to make sense of the artist, he remains elusive, an enigma .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As I studied more about their past, I became more puzzled, and the enigma expanded.
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It is something of an enigma how a man who could not bear to hurt a living thing could serve as defence secretary.
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Lorraine remains an enigma who is easy to admire but impossible to get to know.
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Madeleine was still very much an enigma to him.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But despite all the efforts to make sense of the artist, he remains elusive, an enigma .
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He was to a certain extent an enigma .
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It is as baffling a production enigma as anything in Maclean's own life.
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It is more like something surgical - the unpleasant shape of stumpy enigmas.
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Louisiana, though penetrated, remained an enigma .