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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Alzheimer's disease is one of medicine's most puzzling and feared illnesses.
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Don't you think it's puzzling that no-one noticed them leave?
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Jan's decision not to take part in the race was very puzzling .
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Most puzzling was the fact that Mason waited a week to report the crime.
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Some of the results of the experiments were puzzling to researchers.
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The fact that many people still do not understand this basic concept is both puzzling and troubling.
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The police are investigating the puzzling death of a man found on the freeway.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All the standard items, but there were a couple of puzzling additions in a childish hand at the bottom.
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But it has remained as puzzling to modern historians as it was shocking to contemporaries.
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But there's something else, something more conclusive to link them, but it's more puzzling , too.
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But this week your hopes could be raised then dashed by a series of puzzling , even infuriating, developments.
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Neither type corresponds precisely to that seen in vertebrate enamel, and the extreme variation in crystal orientation is puzzling .
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Only two questions remained unanswered - the puzzling absence of any sect heavies and Grant's worrying non-return.
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She wished he would stop talking, because something one of them had said had stirred the memory of a puzzling moment.