Spectators at a competition last weekend puzzled over the texts.
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For more than 100 years, medical researchers puzzled over that question.
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But archaeologists have long puzzled over the exact purpose of the jars.
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Regulators are puzzled over why the mysterious disease is appearing so frequently.
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This question has been puzzled over by entrepreneurs since the dawn of trade.
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Market participants since have puzzled over what the change in language might imply.
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As analysts puzzled over what's next for Goldman, one firm changed its view.
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For years scientists puzzled over how exactly measles achieves its contagion-in-chief status.
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He slowed the car and puzzled over where a cannabis odor was coming from.
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Analysts have puzzled over Trump&aposs likely approach to an arms control discussion with Putin.
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Academics have long puzzled over why stocks have done so well as compared to bonds.
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Fans have long puzzled over the vision's meaning, and we might now have an answer.
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Developers feel scapegoated and oppose the move, describing themselves as "puzzled" over the government's thinking.
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Scientists have puzzled over cancer, or the lack thereof, in big animals since the 26s.
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Evolutionary biologists have long puzzled over how eukaryotes could have evolved from such simple precursors.
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Seismologists have puzzled over why California's biggest faults have been relatively quiet in recent decades.
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Researchers have long puzzled over the distinctive culture of the Basque region in northern Spain.
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Economists are puzzled over why Britain's productivity growth is so poor compared with other advanced economies.
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But it's been quite a bumpy ride, as investors have puzzled over the streaming company's future.
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Researchers have puzzled over this for decades, but in recent years, the question has become more pressing.
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Researchers have puzzled over why; the usual explanations — smoking, obesity — account for only part of the decline.
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Scientists have long puzzled over what made the Great Dying so much harsher than other die-offs.
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Scholars have long puzzled over the recitation, which doesn't seem to match any known prophecy of Merlin's.
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Gray had puzzled over that, until he decided that the answer was, quite simply, that he cared.
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Voters may be forgiven if they are a bit confused and, perhaps, puzzled over this immaculate reception.
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OFFICIALS have long puzzled over how to reduce the number of vehicles snarling up the streets of London.
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For weeks, pundits have puzzled over what appears to be an agonizing choice for Democrats on Capitol Hill.
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On a recent afternoon, he puzzled over what design he would create for the New York of 2016.
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Scientists studying the fossil record have long puzzled over this transition, which happened around two million years ago.
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As I puzzled over what we should do to offset these challenges, something unexpected happened: our sales increased.
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He puzzled over it for a bit, his glasses pushed far down on his nose, and ultimately agreed.
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Volk made a condolence card for their class to sign and puzzled over how he contained his grief.
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Officials have puzzled over why more attackers have not tried to commit suicide bombings in the United States.
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He puzzled over it for a bit, his glasses pushed far down on his nose, and ultimately agreed.
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He puzzled over the fact that, far from immiserating the poor, Victorian England was providing them with growing prosperity.
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Frequently since then, economists have puzzled over numbers that consistently show stronger growth than seems justified by other indicators.
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For forty years, astronomers have puzzled over the miles-high mounds rising from of the centers of Martian craters.
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Biologists have puzzled over the resilience of the germline for 130 years, but the phenomenon is still deeply mysterious.
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While the driver was detained and treated for his own injuries, townspeople puzzled over why he had done it.
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At the Tufts school on a recent morning, children puzzled over a question: How does a robot celebrate spring?
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At the scene, police puzzled over what to do with the fire engine as the driver removed the keys.
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The Earth-size planets are packed tightly together, and researchers puzzled over how they could coexist despite gravitational jostling.
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For years, I have puzzled over claims from American and Afghan officials that 20 terrorist groups operate in Afghanistan.
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I puzzled over these and similar questions the next evening as I met a friend over a plate of salumi.
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When the Hammarskjold documents surfaced in the late 1990s, government officials and experts puzzled over what to make of them.
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But the two puzzled over how to get rid of large items or whom to call to sell furniture and artwork.
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Officials at the Federal Reserve and other economists have publicly puzzled over sluggish wage growth despite a 16-year low unemployment rate.
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For 80 years, scientists have puzzled over the way galaxies and other cosmic structures appear to gravitate toward something they cannot see.
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The ground is hard-packed and ash-colored, puzzled over with tufted, gray-green lichens, the land studded with barren clay ponds.
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Specialists searched in vain for microscopic tumors and puzzled over Kamni's spinal fluid, which didn't harbor any trace of common brain diseases.
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Another time a baboon wandered onto the course and picked up a ball, leaving judges puzzled over how to rule the interference.
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Since Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the Islamic State last year, analysts have puzzled over how much assistance the group has provided.
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His friends puzzled over his Spartan existence and his acceptance of a part-time job aggregating news reports for the Iranian mission.
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And some puzzled over the network's $37 million purchase of a religious theme park, which Jan Crouch ran as a side business.
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I attended a closed-door luncheon of thought-leading economists and market strategists two weeks ago who puzzled over this no-inflation question.
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The idea cropped up again in the early 2000s, as economists puzzled over how to spring the Japanese economy from its deflationary trap.
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This is an incredibly fast change in a public health trend, and it's left some researchers puzzled over how it happened so quickly.
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Some lawyers and witnesses who have sat in or been briefed on the interviews have puzzled over Mr. Mueller's interest in the episode.
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By the next afternoon his temperature had shot to 104.6, and doctors at the hospital he had checked into puzzled over what was wrong.
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African governments are fighting the illegal trade in wildlife goods, but they have long puzzled over what to do with confiscated ivory and horn.
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While its human scientists back on Earth puzzled over what happened, Curiosity focused on opportunistic science by analyzing the chemical composition of the grains.
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If you're still puzzled over Nintendo's baffling decision to discontinue the extremely popular NES Classic, I have some good news: Hyperkin's got your back.
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Meanwhile, Trump's criticism of Russia has been relatively muted, leaving observers puzzled over how the White House views Russia vis-a-vis U.S. interests.
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And the auto industry is puzzled over Mr. Trump's lack of a decision about imposing tariffs on foreign auto imports despite a passed deadline.
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And so, while generations of readers have loved Little Women and sighed over Little Women, they have also puzzled over that bizarre, unsatisfying ending.
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CSIRO's Comact Array in Australia, via Alex CherneyFor years, astronomers have puzzled over "fast radio bursts" (FRBs), mysterious cosmic beats that may come from pulsars.
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Image: Kristen Grace, Florida MuseumSince their discovery 13 years ago, scientists have puzzled over the origin of tiny glass beads found inside ancient clam shells.
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A recent article about him in Commentary revealed that Israeli intelligence and F.B.I. officials puzzled over this former Soviet agent: Was he loyal to Russia?
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My greatest hope for this improbably viral paper is that it can spur the kind of real, concrete change I'd puzzled over in law school.
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Some puzzled over his judgment, for example, that of all John Updike's considerable body of work, only the novel "The Witches of Eastwick" would last.
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Tepid inflation has been a bugbear for the Federal Reserve, which has puzzled over why price pressures remain low even as the job market improves.
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Her reaction mimicked the befuddlement of countless anthropocentric minds who have puzzled over this discrepancy since scientists began comparing species' genomes more than 220 years ago.
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"Inflation has been a confounding factor for the Fed," Schlossberg said, adding that Fed Chair Janet Yellen on Tuesday puzzled over the persistence of low inflation.
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What they're saying: LeRoy Westerling, who studies wildfires at the University of California Merced, told the San Francisco Chronicle that he was puzzled over Trump's comments.
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But I stuck with Odyssey to the end, puzzled over how it fits into the bigger franchise, and killed a hell of a lot of mercenaries.
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But in the four decades since, the rate has climbed as high as 67% — and economists have puzzled over how to get back to those bigger numbers.
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But analysts are puzzled over how the government intends to create enough jobs, with some investors now fleeing Jordan for reasons that include the unabating regional turmoil.
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Economists have puzzled over which to take more seriously, but the account said most Fed officials had concluded the economy was doing better than the data suggested.
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"I'm really puzzled over how they've embraced him because it takes away from their credibility in my mind," Song, the Bitcoin developer, told me over the phone.
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Disease-response experts in the US have puzzled over these escalating efforts—a public health playbook ripped from the era before drugs and vaccines (and air travel).
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" Similarly, the jurors puzzled over a phrase in another of the criminal counts, which accused Mr. Cosby of providing Ms. Constand with impairing drugs "without her knowledge.
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For many years, Washington had puzzled over whether Saudi Arabia was more of an arsonist or a firefighter when it came to the propagation of militant Islam.
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Previously, astronomers have puzzled over the "final parsec problem," where two black holes become close but need another factor to overcome their massive energy and actually merge.
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When Gouzer returned, they puzzled over how best to display "Him," a 2001 sculpture by Maurizio Cattelan, which was to be the final lot of the sale.
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The decline in teen pregnancy has been an incredibly fast change in a public health trend, and it's left some researchers puzzled over how it happened so quickly.
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They have trailed Ryan since the billionaire showman first incinerated the Republican Party as he knew it and reduced the boyish speaker to his most puzzled-over foil.
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"Some of my friends have puzzled over my giving up a medical career for studies in conservation and environmental health," Dr. Sladen wrote in National Geographic in 1975.
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Page after page of fucking lore that I puzzled over as I moved through the legion's of hell, ripping the eyes out of cacodemons and decapitating the damned.
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He puzzled over the fact that the world's most liberal society practised slavery, though, like most liberals, he comforted himself with the thought that it was sure to wither.
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I heard that tone many times across Alabama, as voters puzzled over what had become of the Sessions they had known before his doomed tour in the Trump administration.
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Ever since KIC 84628532 was spotted in the Kepler Space Telescope's dataset, astronomers have puzzled over what the heck could be responsible for the star's logic-defying light curve.
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Since NASA's Viking spacecraft snapped the first close-up photos of Phobos in the 1970s, scientists have puzzled over a motley collection of markings on the tiny Martian moon.
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Legal experts puzzled over Carr's terse legalese but noted that the rarity of public statements by the special counsel suggested Mueller felt an overwhelming urgency to correct the record.
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As the placing judges puzzled over a too-close-to-call rush to the finish of the 21.5th running of the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, each trainer remained on edge.
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On a recent Monday in the Alchemy office, as the roughly dozen employees puzzled over a lunch order for a coworker's birthday, the cofounders still seemed very down for whatever.
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In North Carolina, clinicians puzzled over how healthy teenagers could suddenly be so ill that they needed ventilators for something that wasn't infectious, said Zack Moore, the state's epidemiology chief.
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But currency markets remain puzzled over the formula the central bank is using to determine its value and say spot yuan will remain under pressure as the economy continues to cool.
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It doesn't indicate that he is puzzled over their romance from a strategic standpoint; Tyrion has coveted Dany's love and is roiling with resentment that someone else has her heart instead.
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Western officials have puzzled over whether some element of Egypt's security apparatus purposely dumped Mr. Regeni's body on that day to send a message to Italy, or even to Mr. Sisi.
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As a political historian who writes mainly about the Republican Party, I've often puzzled over why far-right groups during the 1950s and '60s had such an appetite for obvious falsehoods.
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Scientists have long puzzled over the evolutionary shift from such simple bacteria-like cells to the first rudimentary fungi, plants and animals - a group called eukaryotes - perhaps 2 billion years ago.
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Archaeologists have long puzzled over the purpose of the mysterious headgear, and whether they were real items worn by people, or just iconographic ornaments, like halos crowning saints in Christian artwork.
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Bank of Japan consultants have puzzled over whether people shop and save as if they fully see the future, or whether they look at the past and only slowly adapt to change.
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This article originally appeared on VICE UK."What happens when we die?" is one of the existential questions that humans have puzzled over since we first grew aware of our own mortality.
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An African donkey, I presume The West got its first whiff of the okapi in 1890 when Welsh journalist Henry Morton Stanley had puzzled over a strange "African donkey" in his book.
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Video courtesy of YouTube user SteamBoy23 In the weeks after Dark Souls 22 shipped, players puzzled over poise, with most assuming it was a glitch FromSoftware needed to address in a patch.
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Several people familiar with the diplomacy between the Trump administration and the Taliban puzzled over Mr. Trump's stated decision to cancel peace negotiations entirely in response to one American casualty, however tragic.
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The former official also puzzled over the charts' presentation of data as a series of six-quarter averages rather than by the usual measure of a month, a quarter or a year.
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Mueller's focus on this has struck some as odd: Some lawyers and witnesses who have sat in or been briefed on the interviews have puzzled over Mr. Mueller's interest in the episode.
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Since 1915, when the severed head of a mummy was discovered in the corner of a looted tomb in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Deir el-Bersha, archaeologists have puzzled over its identity.
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Recently, for example, she has puzzled over the trend for people on Twitter to implore celebrities to kill them, and riffed on the internet's hysterical response to stories involving the phrase "my wife".
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The interpreter Friend and foe alike are left puzzled over what President Trump aimed to achieve by killing a top Iranian general, what he might do next or how Tehran could mollify him.
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Scientists have long puzzled over soaring allergy rates in developed countries, with many speculating that changing exposure to germs in childhood may be to blame, although the precise mechanism for this remains unclear.
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An awkward silence then ensued as the chairwoman of the committee, Senator Elaine Phillips, puzzled over the parliamentary rules, all while being periodically whispered to, Rasputin-like, by the Senate's legal counsel, David Lewis.
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For Takagi, this suggests the cats use sound to predict whether an object would fall out when the container was turned over, and puzzled over the incongruity when the conditions didn't match that causal logic.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed lower for the first time in five days on Tuesday, led by declines in Apple, while investors puzzled over conflicting reports over the progress of U.S.-China trade negotiations.
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It also manages to explain, for those of us who puzzled over her attraction to Sonny Bono — her first husband and onetime singing partner — what this funny, spectacularly talented beauty was even doing with him.
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Biographers have long puzzled over what motivated the German-born, cosmopolitan Brandt to reside for most of his long life in Great Britain, a nation coping with its waning imperial status and bouts of economic instability.
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Politicos have puzzled over why apparently well-off people are drawn to the Labour Party, which promises a radical redistribution of wealth for the benefit of "the many, not the few" if it comes to power.
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Editorial When President Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India met last week at the White House, many analysts puzzled over how and why the two leaders, so different in so many ways, get along.
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When I wasn't helping my grandmother over uneven cobblestones or going with my father to fetch the rental car, I puzzled over how to construct a narrative around these two tenuously connected halves of my journey.
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And as everyone in Washington puzzled over his admission about his own part in Trump's Ukraine saga, Johnson went on "Meet the Press" to make clear he's not joining the small band of Trump's GOP critics.
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The piece puzzled over the fact that microfinance, which had supposedly been transforming the developed world — a claim it took at face value — had such modest results when it's put to work in the United States.
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And though FireEye describes APT29's activities as largely focused on stealthy spying, they've also found links between it and a mysterious piece of data-destroying malware that security analysts have puzzled over since earlier this year.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Qatar supports Kuwait's efforts to end a rift with Saudi Arabia and other Arab states, its foreign minister said on Monday, but the emirate remains puzzled over why "abusive measures" had been imposed on it.
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We had just finished eating egg tarts at Tai Cheong Bakery, as I puzzled over which fancy boutique had moved into the ground floor of my once-grimy old apartment house, when I received a WhatsApp message.
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Meanwhile, the authors of a paper titled "On the Exploitation of Serendipity in Drug Discovery" puzzled over the reasons the 1950s and '60s saw a bonanza of breakthroughs in psychiatric medication, and why that run of serendipity ended.
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When the aging adman Don Draper puzzled over the Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows" — as if the sound of the new youth culture was like an alien transmission to him — it wasn't just scene-setting, it was character-defining.
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Financial and credit volatility in particular has left Fed officials hesitant to take further action, puzzled over whether their rate increases to date are only now starting to bite on family and business spending, and waiting for more information.
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GROWING UP IN England, I was encouraged to feel that Greece was the alpha and omega of the ancient world as my friends and I puzzled over its strange letters in our little green copies of Xenophon and Plato.
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That is work they're continuing to focus on and I think it's important, but I'm more interested in the first case just because the expansion of the total addressable market for Twitter has long been something that people have puzzled over.
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Nonfiction SEA PEOPLE The Puzzle of Polynesia By Christina Thompson ENDEAVOUR The Ship That Changed the World By Peter Moore It is an old, coral-encrusted question, puzzled over for the last three centuries, and usually posed in three parts.
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I've thought a lot about that over the last year, as Americans have puzzled over Mr. Trump's surprising rise, and whether he really means all those outrageous things he says and plans to follow through with the policy shifts he promises.
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The fierce, big-money patent fight between Apple and Samsung left the U.S. Supreme Court groping for a solution on Tuesday, as the justices puzzled over how to discern the value of individual design elements in a complex product like an iPhone.
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Many people are puzzled over how politicians, like the Governors of New York and Virginia, could talk themselves into thinking that no restrictions on abortion could be justified, even to the point of killing an intended aborted child after it might survive alive.
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Christoph was the navigator of the pistes; his skills as an illustrator came in handy as we puzzled over the stylized blue, red and black slashes on the map, where, to my eternal confusion, you could somehow ski down something pointing upward.
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"The New Jersey exception," as it's sometimes called, has been puzzled over by historians, who have debated whether it represented a deliberate, widespread experiment in gender equality, or an accidental legal loophole whose importance was greatly exaggerated by the era's partisan press.
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Trading in U.S. refinery shares, fuel futures and corn prices was turbulent on the news of the pending order and its subsequent denial, as investors puzzled over what it would mean for the price of gasoline, ethanol and shares of companies that produce them.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The fierce, big-money patent fight between Apple and Samsung left the U.S. Supreme Court groping for a solution on Tuesday, as the justices puzzled over how to discern the value of individual design elements in a complex product like an iPhone.
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In a #MeToo era in which power dynamics and questions of workplace relationships have also been subject to fresh scrutiny and debate, some have puzzled over the ramifications of a married woman in a position of authority engaging in a consensual relationship with a subordinate.
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"In 2008, there was a great deal of excitement around young people and a candidate who was young and energetic and different, but all of those things struck 50- and 85033-year-olds — whites in particular — as something that needed to be puzzled over," Jillson said.
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Over the last month, researchers at security firms including Sentinel One and Dragos have puzzled over a piece of code called Snake or EKANS, which they now believe is specifically designed to target industrial control systems, the software and hardware used in everything from oil refineries to power grids to manufacturing facilities.
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Midway through the first quarter, the usual riddle of what constitutes a football catch was puzzled over by the officials before they decided not to overturn a ruling of an incompletion even though it appeared that Panthers receiver Jerricho Cotchery had control of the ball as it came into contact with the ground.
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Before Gen-Xers go extinct, someone should make a W.P.A.-style effort to send ethnologists out to record their oral histories (most of which will probably be painstakingly recounted plots of syndicated TV shows), so their esoteric wisdom can survive to be puzzled over and periodically rediscovered by future historians, if there are any.
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The notion that Sanders is sailing toward primary victories with nary a soul bothering to pose a question about his record or electability is a relic of the 2016 Democratic primary, when Hillary Clinton and her supporters grew frustrated with his durable presence in the race and pundits puzzled over the fact that Sanders polled better against Donald Trump.
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Strabo recognized this reaction was related to the emission of gas -- "the space is full of a vapor so misty and dense that one can scarcely see the ground" -- but he puzzled over how it affected the animals but not the priests, asking whether it was because of their divine providence or simply because they held their breath.
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In her review for The New York Times, Roberta Smith calls attention to the dearth of juxtapositions between time periods, which perhaps marks a missed opportunity to investigate Renaissance and Baroque paintings as things — material objects that are manipulated, puzzled over, revised, rebuffed, left for dead — in a way that's no different from how we approach the new.
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As a pumpkin sat motionless a la April the giraffe in the moments leading up to some odd interactions with a man dressed as a farmer, Facebook commenters puzzled over what they thought to be a secret code about the release, fumed over the hours the livestream was putting between them and the drink, and even argued about what to name the pumpkin. .
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But in 1966, in an article foundational to the theory of aging, the evolutionary theorist William Hamilton puzzled over some of the data on which he was basing his ideas: census records from early 20th-century Taiwan, then under Japanese rule, showed that in this population with high, premodern rates of mortality, many women outlived their reproductive lives — and for a long time at that.
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Yet the Times has reported that Mueller seems focused not just on the meeting itself, but on the misleading public statement that the president crafted for Don Jr. about the meeting aboard Air Force One last year, which has struck some as odd: Some lawyers and witnesses who have sat in or been briefed on the interviews have puzzled over Mr. Mueller's interest in the episode.
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