conundrum
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- noun
- /kəˈnʌndrəm/
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dilema
- The math problem presented a challenging conundrum that puzzled the students for hours.
- pose a conundrum
- face a conundrum
- a moral conundrum
And that was a real conundrum for a long time.
- And that was a real conundrum for a long time.
- And in that is a little bit of a conundrum because I love what I do.
- So yeah, there's a, there's a lot of conundrums associated with EVs.
- OK we have one more conundrum coming in from Zoom Ali Canal.
- Hope this video helped you understand this conundrum that's going on in modern nutrition.
- This is the conundrum of, you know, guerrilla warfare, right?
- It's it's yeah, it it is a big conundrum, the prisoner's dilemma.
- And it's a, it's a cosmic conundrum right now.
- So then how do you escape this, this nihilist conundrum that that you think all it is?
- And then Paul poses Robert Childon with a conundrum.
- It comes with a different set of conundrums.
- And he had went through a lot of kind of moral conundrums.
- The nuclear war conundrum is so complex and tightly wound.
- Against this Orestes is is posed with a conundrum.
- So this is a bit of a conundrum, is it?
- So we've created this thought experiment that basically creates A conundrum for our current morals and ethics.
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We now face the conundrum that building on our conservation success will require long-term investments.
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But, yeah, I I just didn't really know how to solve this conundrum we were in.
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And that was a real conundrum for a long time.
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As I said, quite a conundrum for us.
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Every way she turned, a conundrum lay in her path.
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And then the great conundrum keeps getting even bigger.
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And what we see here is that exactly that conundrum is reflected in current mathematical concerns.
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Medicare remains yet another conundrum in the US health care system.
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So we've got that conundrum to solve and to consider.
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We must live, he understood, with this philosophical conundrum that he posed but could not solve.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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A situation that causes trouble and needs a solution
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Something that is hard to understand or explain
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A difficult question or mystery that needs clever thought
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8.1
A person or thing that is mysterious and hard to understand
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8.2
A situation when you do not know what to do
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A question or problem that is hard to solve
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A difficult question or problem for people to solve
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A tricky question or puzzle that tests your skill
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A problem that is hard to understand or solve
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A hard puzzle that needs careful thought to solve
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A question or problem that is very hard to answer
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A difficult puzzle that needs careful thinking to solve
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A difficult question or problem that is hard to answer
A puzzle that is hard to understand and solve
A difficult problem that is hard to solve
A difficult problem with no easy solution
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Etymology
Conundrum began as a playful, made-up English word for a 'riddle' or joke question a few hundred years ago. A helpful way to remember it is to think of a 'riddle' that leaves you unsure what to do, and that's why today a conundrum is a confusing or difficult problem.