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conundrum

Noun

Meaning

A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun.

A question to which only a conjectural answer can be made.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Advancing a sainthood cause does not come cheap; most efforts easily run into six figures and sometimes seven — a bit of a conundrum when the object of the cause embraced voluntary poverty. Source: Internet

And what's true is we have to constantly remind ourselves of the way out of that conundrum. Source: Internet

A person is diligently tasked with the conundrum of choosing to be loyal to the company or to blow the whistle on the company’s wrongdoing. Source: Internet

All teams are now getting a taste of the Cousins conundrum: do you pay cap-killing contracts to good QBs who may not be great? Source: Internet

Alternative views Wave–particle duality is an ongoing conundrum in modern physics. Source: Internet

America still leads the world in terms of per-capita incarceration rates, adding to the conundrum further. Source: Internet

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