And the viewer is left puzzling over Elizabeth's emotionless face.
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I was puzzling over other conversations I'd just been having.
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But there's one especially bizarre fact that fans are puzzling over.
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Statisticians are still puzzling over how they can be accurately measured.
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He would be puzzling over 40-across on the Sunday crossword.
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He would be puzzling over 40-across on the Sunday crossword.
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Investors have been puzzling over the strange earnings-stocks disconnect this year.
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Or I'm deciding how to pronounce a word, puzzling over word choices.
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Investigators were still puzzling over what set off the deadly chain of events.
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Economists have been puzzling over sluggish wage growth despite the low unemployment rate.
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But that is a key question analysts and investors are now puzzling over.
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Physicists have been puzzling over this particular optimization problem for several years now.
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Since then, experts have been puzzling over how the company allowed it to happen.
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Law enforcement officials are puzzling over how to detect terror cells within a family.
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No more puzzling over transit maps, interrogating unhelpful bus drivers, or negotiating with taxi drivers.
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And they are critics and philosophers of a kind, puzzling over old and stubborn questions.
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Now Dr. Aubert and other researchers are puzzling over what triggered these bursts of creativity.
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Ever since, solar scientists have been puzzling over precisely how the corona gets so hot.
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I have been puzzling over this moment since it aired on Bravo over a year ago.
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When researchers called, puzzling over her longevity, she told them that a single life definitely helped.
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They are also puzzling over the apparent resilience that some people have to this modern onslaught.
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A FEW YEARS ago Russell Maret, a New York artist, found himself puzzling over a question.
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Political scientists have spent three years puzzling over the psychological impulses that propelled Mr Trump to power.
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Berg and Hader were puzzling over a scene between Sally and her frenemy in the acting class.
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For while now, economists have been puzzling over why the global economy has been acting so sluggish.
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Over at the gold station, two students were puzzling over how to extract yellow pigment from turmeric.
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Berkeley is puzzling over how to cap such spending, without penalising speakers with a particular set of views.
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She had it in a Ziploc bag, puzzling over what to do because she couldn't bring it home.
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And its in the satisfaction of finding just the right approach to every scenario, puzzling over various factors.
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But later that day, the same little boy found himself puzzling over another riddle of movement and speed.
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But he did say he'd supported Rogers in the past and was currently puzzling over his Congress member's vote.
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By contrast, "The Legend of Zelda" rewarded stoic perseverance, frequently leaving the player puzzling over what to do next.
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I've spent a lot of time puzzling over the two-protagonist setup in Dishonored, because I'm ambivalent of it.
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I remember last time we spoke, you were puzzling over exactly how to attach cameras to the underwater pavilions.
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Technologists navigating these vendors' websites and puzzling over what, precisely, they offer might struggle to agree with the "unique" label.
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Animals that don't happen to be groundhogs have been puzzling over a different issue: Who will win the Super Bowl?
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Western and Arab officials say they are still puzzling over what the Saudis hoped to accomplish with all this intrigue.
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You've spent weeks puzzling over what to gift your picky sister, your always-difficult dad, and your boss who has everything.
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Just last month, bitcoin had its biggest daily gain for a year, leaving investors puzzling over the cause of the move.
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I've been puzzling over my old relationships for a while now, as I spent most of the last year being single.
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But he spends much of his time now puzzling over political options and wrestling with the terrifying responsibilities of the presidency.
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After twice failing a writing course and puzzling over what she was doing wrong, she asked the course instructor for an explanation.
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Many people are still adjusting to the law's quirks, while puzzling over other legislative changes that came at the end of 2019.
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It's exhausting to even think about how much effort we will expend puzzling over these glamorous celebrity spokesmen of the offender class.
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Scientists are puzzling over the discovery of a dead humpback whale in the Amazon jungle, about 50 feet from the ocean shore.
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That "nigga" is not only one of our most controversial words but also one of our funniest is revealing, and worth puzzling over.
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His actions are appalling enough; parsing and puzzling over his words, though we must endure their effects, seems like an excruciating fool's errand.
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She wasn't a student anymore, puzzling over feminist theory, drinking and dancing with her friends, exploring her sexuality, making stupid but sometimes exhilarating mistakes.
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While the team was puzzling over the mysterious package, they received a call from a young man claiming responsibility for the flying burger box.
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But that still doesn't answer the question of why so many people saw something totally different—a question that scientists are still puzzling over.
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And for those still puzzling over "Nascar": We don't use all capital letters for acronyms of more than four letters, like Nascar and Unicef.
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"That's holding on the defense," the play-by-play announcer, Wayne Larrivee, said to his partner, Johnny Kerr, after puzzling over Wells's initial foul.
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One could dedicate a great deal of time puzzling over how money is so often both the problem and the solution in our lives.
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Andy Bowers, Panoply's chief content officer, has been puzzling over how to turn children's audio into a sustainable enterprise for a couple of decades.
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" MICHAEL COOPER Sometimes, when puzzling over the question of why opera isn't more popular, I ruefully remind myself of this scene from Strauss's "Elektra.
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I was turning over a new old leaf—observing it, carefully appreciating its beauty, puzzling over the world's—and my—very fact of existence.
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On Thursday, the authorities said they were puzzling over how Mr. Causey, 46, had managed to escape from another maximum-security prison on Wednesday.
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It was a halting, if ultimately educational, glimpse at the tedious mechanics of real-time reporting: sifting through documents, puzzling over footnotes and more.
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Minutes before, Mr. Kaufman, at Table 19, had been puzzling over the problem of reporting news from an event that, by design, generates so little.
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Episode 2It's a dark and stormy night, and three little boys are puzzling over what to do with the drenched, bloody girl in the basement.
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Lastly, scientists are puzzling over a strange fish that walks like a land vertebrate and may help clarify how human ancestors emerged from the seas.
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For two years, national Democrats have been puzzling over how best to counter President Trump, plotting their comeback in areas red, blue and in between.
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It's not a rare feeling at a runway presentation to find oneself puzzling over who the consumer is that's being pitched a particular designer's vision.
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But even younger people are moving less than before, and economists, who have been studying it for years, are still puzzling over the primary driver.
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NASA's Maven mission explores Mars' upper atmosphere, puzzling over how a planet that was once wet and potentially habitable ended up a dry, cold desert world.
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The result, for television viewers, was a halting, if ultimately educational glimpse at the tedious mechanics of real-time reporting: sifting through documents, puzzling over footnotes.
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But if she doesn't, this could be the end of the road for her, and that's left a lot of people puzzling over what exactly happened.
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If you're still puzzling over what I'm talking about, take a closer look at the circled/shaded letters at the beginning of today's five theme entries.
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Until then, the taste profile of the special-edition chip will remain a mystery, and we are left puzzling over what, exactly, Pickle Rick tastes like.
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Democrats and Trumpskeptic Republicans spent the next few days alternately puzzling over what had transpired and demanding Nunes hand over the reins of the House probe.
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Anyone puzzling over Sanders's relative lack of black support should read Ta-Nehisi Coates's piece on Sanders's opposition to the idea of paying reparations to African Americans.
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Even twenty years out, he suspects we will still be puzzling over how to use this kind of technology to help people with physical and psychological illnesses.
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But they're discussing more than just how best to observe the asteroid—they're also puzzling over what to do if a real threat to Earth becomes imminent.
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As I stood there puzzling over the painting, I heard the elevator in the hallway clatter to a stop, and Close wheeled into the room behind me.
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The money-laundering investigation has gone quiet in the intervening months, which is just one reason that business leaders and Transparency International have been puzzling over it.
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While we're still puzzling over this one, Finix suggests it has already moved on from the saga — and, given its much stronger financial footing, it's no wonder.
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For those who don't watch the game regularly who are puzzling over Ronaldo's shorts: Yes, he likes to pull them up sharply at the sides on occasion.
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Yet I'm still puzzling over many things, including the scene where a daughter accuses her father of being a Nazi before crawling naked into bed with him.
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For Ms. Cox, working with data hands on, puzzling over the questions that it raises and the best and most creative way to present it, is fun.
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James Brady, co-director of GAM and a professor of anthropology at California State University in Los Angeles, has been puzzling over Segovia's decision to seal the cave.
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In 2011, Jennifer Doudna of the University of California Berkeley and Emmanuelle Charpentier of Umeå University in Sweden were puzzling over how the CRISPR/Cas9 system actually worked.
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And the work sheets they were puzzling over don't just represent dry grammar, but a second chance — at a high school diploma, a better-paying job, maybe college.
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I have never been good at math, but I keep puzzling over this equation, trying to reconcile whether love for us is greater than, or less than, doubt.
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Researchers are still puzzling over why we're seeing these increases, but many have pointed to economic despair and the opioid epidemic concentrated in these areas of the country.
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And while it may seem a bit arcane to continue puzzling over the pixelated reflections of a machine that died on Mars more than a decade ago, who knows?
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Later in his career he began thinking in other directions, puzzling over the way simple laws of physics give rise to the beauty and intricacy of the living world.
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Puzzling over how to understand this display, I went to another show at the Met, The Decorated Word: Writing and Picturing in Islamic Calligraphy (April 8 – November 3, 2019).
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Ms. Ingalls initially had qualms about filming her story, puzzling over how it could present the monster, which may or may not be a figment of the protagonist's imagination.
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Yet somehow, we're all still puzzling over how the hell Carrie could afford that sweet Upper East Side pad (not to mention all those shoes) on a freelance writer's salary.
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I don't know I've reached Snap's global headquarters until I am standing in front of them, leaning on the handle of my rolling suitcase and puzzling over a map app.
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Some scientists were puzzling over the announcement on Wednesday, wondering in particular about who would be appointed to the new ethics advisory boards and what exactly the boards would consider.
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Meanwhile, in Washington and other capitals, sanctions experts and government officials are puzzling over EO13818's potential import, for it is a tool to strike fear into the stoniest oligarch's heart.
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On Twitter, by water coolers, and in bars after work, '90s kids are puzzling over the video and wondering if their lack of understanding means they're old and out of touch.
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Gardens director Henry Nicholas Ridley spent much of his tenure puzzling over the problem of how to tap latex from rubber trees without destroying them (earning him the nickname "Mad Ripley").
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Physicists have been puzzling over this matter-antimatter asymmetry for decades, but new data coming from the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment may help shed some light on the problem.
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They are trying to become the logarithm again, but in the meantime they're just another team wondering what's gone wrong, and puzzling over the difference and distance between intention and act.
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Mr. Orange struggled for several years with the structure, puzzling over how the characters' lives fit together, and discarded hundreds of pages and entire chapters delving into different characters' family histories.
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"I know a few Juleses but no Jims who fit the bill," the writer William Norwich said, confessing that he'd been puzzling over Jim's identity ever since Trump name-checked him.
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He is recessive, lightly ironic, evasive ("I think I write about Englishness," Barnes once said), puzzling over his life and, very often, his attachment to a charismatic and congenitally unfaithful woman.
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One key question authorities are puzzling over is why none of the apparent bombs detonated, a second law enforcement source said, raising questions about the skill and motive of the bombmaker.
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Fans have been puzzling over what this means for their relationship, and at New York Comic Con, actors Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour hinted at what's to come in season 2.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch police puzzling over how to remove drones that pose a public safety threat are testing a way to get the job done in one fell swoop - with trained eagles.
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Two of the seers who pop up in Freedman's fascinating pages are Defense Secretary James Mattis, then a Marine Corps general puzzling over how to fight against irregular forces, and Lt. Gen.
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While Mr. Kremer was puzzling over his results on textbooks, Mr. Banerjee and Ms. Duflo began a field experiment in India to evaluate a program aimed at helping struggling students catch up.
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Both the buyside and sellside have been puzzling over what will be the benchmark when the London Interbank Offered Rate, which has been dogged by scandals, is taken out of use by 2021.
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Atlanta Federal Reserve bank president Raphael Bostic has made the issue a priority in his travels and research, puzzling over why places in his district like Atlanta have surged ahead while others have not.
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The minutes from the most recent meeting of the Fed's decision-making body, the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC), show the decision-makers puzzling over why the economy continues to respond tepidly to stimulus.
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Blade Runner 2049 does its due diligence as a sequel, wrapping up some threads from the original film that may (or may not) satisfy some fans still puzzling over Blade Runner's biggest open question.
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Questions about the bombmaker One key question authorities are puzzling over is why none of the apparent bombs detonated, a law enforcement source said, raising questions about the skill and motive of the bombmaker.
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Well, here are a couple of Harvard researchers who are not ruling it out: Scientists have been puzzling over Oumuamua ever since the mysterious space object was observed tumbling past the sun in late 2017.
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She also has to deal with borderline puritanical rules from the big tech platforms while brainstorming about hunks, discerning what a hug sounds like, and puzzling over why people are so into stories about threesomes.
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Areaware Little Food Puzzles, $45-$105While others are working on puzzles of boring landscapes and scenery, your recipient will be puzzling over how to create a fully formed cheese puff, bowl of ramen, or broccoli.
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If you're tempted to spend more of your time picking out furnishings or puzzling over layouts, remember that lighting can completely transform a space — not just by brightening dark corners, but by affecting your emotions.
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While he was at Yaddo, he kept thinking about the girl and the construction worker, puzzling over what he had seen, and began writing a fictionalized story about the years leading up to the encounter.
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" Ms. Elliott considered making Bobbie bisexual, puzzling over how to handle the character's offhanded proposal to Amy, a friend whose cold feet at the altar provoke the virtuosically jittery patter song "(Not) Getting Married Today.
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Before the trade war threatened to upend everything, Lena Phoenix spent most of her hours puzzling over how to expand the thriving footwear business she and her husband had founded in their home in Colorado.
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They came puzzling over how Mr. Sartori would top the act of his predecessor, Stefano Pilati, a designer whose visionary outlook on fashion, whether for women or men, has not always translated well into sales.
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At the exhibition Kunst & Kohle — Die schwarze Seite (Art & Coal — The Black Side), on view at Museum DKM in Duisburg, Germany, visitors crowded around artist Claudia Terstappen's altar for Saint Barbara, puzzling over who she is.
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Analysts and strategists are puzzling over an unusual development: 2019 earnings estimates are dropping fast — they are down to a measly 0.5 percent for the first quarter, but revenue estimates are barely changed at 5.6 percent.
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It's a question that Officer Alston admits to puzzling over constantly, as he and Flanagan carry out the Sisyphean labor of rounding up prostitutes toward the end of their shift and releasing them the next morning.
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Meanwhile, physicists are puzzling over how quickly the universe is expanding; it seems to be going faster than physics predicts it should, which could be a clue that our understanding of the universe is missing something.
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Economists are puzzling over whether this is another case when seasonality in the data is depressing first quarter growth, as it apparently has the past two years, or if this is a real softening of the economy.
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By February, the couple was puzzling over how to study the Zika virus when they had no samples of it; even if they could get some, their lab did not have university approval to work with Zika.
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The Beaverglen partygoers — about two dozen people and two dogs — took a ceremonial walk along the crescent-shaped street, catching up with neighbors, snapping photos and puzzling over exactly where some of the missing houses once stood.
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Everyone at the time was puzzling over the Standard Model of particle physics—the set of equations describing the known elementary particles and their interactions via the strong, weak and electromagnetic forces (all the fundamental forces except gravity).
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Before we heard Scialfa's crystal-clear soprano—she has an Emmylou Harris purity to her voice, but is more open-mouthed and blues-based—Springsteen, a family man still puzzling over what makes a family, talked about trust.
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What started as a fun thing to do with a game that we really enjoyed turned into an informal research project that had us puzzling over single lines of text or talking about specific encounters within the game.
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A few hours later I did just that, and when I ate, it was just as it had been with Walsh all those years ago, my mind left puzzling over how something so plain could be so delectable.
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While Mr. Trump has held more than 130 meetings and phone calls with foreign leaders since taking office, he has left the rest of the world still puzzling over how to handle an American president unlike any other.
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There is the answer to analysts puzzling over a rather modest 563 percent increase in nominal hourly compensations during the first three quarters of this year, in spite of the lowest officially reported unemployment rate in nearly 50 years.
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But the degree to which he seemed to enjoy knocking down the central pillars of the self-driving industry was truly astonishing, and it has many in the industry puzzling over how he can possibly deliver on his promises.
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"Bright Colors" doubled as a sly commentary on the virtues and drawbacks of assimilation, puzzling over what it means to be a gay man in a world where homosexuality is no longer an obstacle to marriage, parenthood, social status.
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If you've ever found yourself puzzling over what your manager really meant, or whether there was some kind of coded message hidden in the feedback you received, it may be a sign that you're not working in an atmosphere of trust.
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LAS VEGAS — As six leading presidential candidates brawled onstage in a debate Wednesday night on the Las Vegas Strip, a handful of Nevadans supporting a man who didn't make the cut were around seven miles away, puzzling over their evening plans.
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We will continue to undergo episodes where good economic news is taken badly by stocks because of what it means for the Fed and bonds, while perhaps also puzzling over the chance for a first-quarter lull and weak retail sales.
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That's the finding of a study co-authored by literally hundreds of scientists who have spent years puzzling over weird observations from the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA), an aerial experiment that searched for signatures left by particles known as neutrinos.
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They matter because although there are stretches of the book that I enjoyed — there is a hint of A. S. Byatt's "Possession" as Wolf plays literary detective in the archives, puzzling over Symonds's codes and concealments — I don't trust it.
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In recent weeks global markets have been puzzling over what the Fed will do in the near term as relatively upbeat U.S. data have been eclipsed by a still-sluggish global economy and worries over the risk of Britain exiting the European Union.
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US officials, puzzling over what they say was an hour-long delay before soldiers requested aerial support, believe the time it took for the more heavily armed militants to arrive may have led the troops to underestimate the gravity of the attack.
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There are puzzles within puzzles, puzzles that lead to other puzzles and puzzles just for the sake of it, but for all of the game's vastness, beauty and mystery, you still spend most of your time puzzling over the right path to draw.
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Since the breach, Avid has been puzzling over how to rebuild its reputation as a platform for discreet romantic encounters, while also contending with public anger that has taken shape in several lawsuits against the company by users whose data was exposed.
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Moderating factory gate inflation in the world's second-biggest economy could be a further worry for global central banks like the U.S. Federal Reserve and European Central Bank, which are puzzling over why domestic prices have remained sluggish despite improving economic growth.
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The casualties are disproportionately among the country's poor, and India, like many impoverished countries, is puzzling over how to pull its populations out of poverty while leap-frogging the dirty power sources that drove the Industrial Revolution to cleaner energy, like solar.
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Instead of puzzling over whether your window is medium in the morning and low at night or the other way around, Joyce suggested this rule of thumb: "Most houseplants will do best in spots with eastern or western facing windows," she said.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's warm words for Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping as a "good man" will reassure Beijing that he finally understands the importance of good ties, but risks leaving America's regional allies puzzling over where they fit into the new order.
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After ten years of puzzling over this unexpected imbalance between polar auroras, researchers led by Anders Ohma, a graduate student at the University of Bergen in Norway, think the answer could be the tilted pressure that the solar wind exerts on Earth's magnetic field.
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We're still not finished with puzzling over why giraffes necks are so long, and some of the paper's authors have already started experiments injecting one of the gene mutations into mice using CRISPR/Cas9, according to a press release, to determine exactly what role it plays.
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And it was here that I met my first wife: mutually puzzling over plot clues, blowing each other up in deathmatch, and running in endless circles around the farmhouse at the end of Left 4 Dead's 'Blood Harvest, spiraling ever closer to our real thoughts and feelings.
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MANCHESTER, England — As Prime Minister Boris Johnson readied the release of his final Brexit plan, politicians and diplomats on Tuesday were puzzling over a basic question: Is he more interested in reaching an agreement with the European Union, or averting blame for failure to get one?
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On the one hand, the lack of exhibition text left some puzzling over the meaning and intention of his works (are those crumpled dollar bills on the floor for the taking?); on the other, it seemed fitting for his art to trick and challenge the viewer.
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And while traditionally tolerated by police and urban residents, these transient groups of the unshaven and unwashed have been involved in a series of incidents in recent years -- accompanied by an abundance of bad press -- that has municipalities across the country puzzling over how to address the problem.
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Now, for the first time, Villalpando's altarpiece has left Mexico and stands alone in the Robert Lehman Collection wing of the Met, where you could spend days gaping at its churning collision of saints and mortals, and puzzling over the strange confluence of Old and New Testament visions.
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Now, for the first time ever, Villalpando's altarpiece has left Mexico and stands alone in the Robert Lehman Collection wing of the Met, where you could spend days gaping at its churning collision of saints and mortals, and puzzling over the strange confluence of Old and New Testament visions.
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LONDON — Ever since China announced last year that it no longer wanted to be the "world's garbage dump," recycling about half of the globe's plastics and paper products, Western nations have been puzzling over what to do when the ban went into effect, which it did on Jan. 1.
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I have covered life and death in Southeast Asia for the past decade, a job that has entailed puzzling over a missing Malaysian plane one day (two years later, it's still missing) and interviewing former C.I.A. mercenaries who were being hunted by the government in the jungles of Laos another.
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Personally I like how it painstakingly draws out the exhausting mental flowcharts and loop-de-loops it takes to try to understand someone—Margot puzzling over Robert's dolphin emojis, whether she can feel safe in his car, what's up with his cats—and how exasperating it is when the effort isn't reciprocated.
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Mastery of words may not result in masterly communication, and a great dictionary, like a love story, is "the result of people puzzling over their choices" — a classic tension that has made "The Great Passage" a prizewinner in Japan, as well as both a successful feature film and an animated television series.
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Written under a pseudonym by a poet who would die in childbirth before seeing the work published, "The Worth of Women" takes the form of a literary dialogue, depicting seven Venetian noblewomen puzzling over men's animosity toward their sex and proposing equal access to education as the best tool to fight inequality.
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The true lifecycle of a buzzword likely begins with a marketer attempting to distill technical advantages into something attention-grabbing, other marketers glomming on like bedbugs, users squinting and puzzling over its meaning, and finally, reluctant acceptance of some nebulous, "flexible" definition that solidifies its position in the industry lexicon (Exhibit A: "zero trust").
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"Everyone has this old thinking that nuns can't do anything," — Jigme Konchok Lhamo, a member of the Kung Fu Nuns On a recent fall day in Manhattan, a dozen Buddhist nuns, bald and dressed in humble maroon robes, were puzzling over a matter of grave importance: to wear their sneakers or to take them off.
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After the formal discussion wrapped, Mr. Zelizer, the author of "The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress and the Battle for the Great Society," said he found himself puzzling over the paradox of President Obama's astute political intelligence on the one hand, and his lack of attention to the partisan side of politics on the other.
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While it's too early to evaluate how the show will answer its big questions, we're all fans, thanks to its eerie visuals, impressive performances (particularly from Offerman and Mizuno) and the tantalizing way that it lays out its mysteries — during the spoiler discussion, we spent most of our time puzzling over clues about the ultimate goal of the Devs team.
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Now, the World Bank's chief economist has resigned after only 15 months on the job, one of the paper's authors has published it on his own website, the bank relented and published it officially a few hours later, and economists around the world are puzzling over whether the World Bank really tried to suppress some research that made it look bad.
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An astute observer of both the mundane and the inexplicable, Levy sketches memorable details in just a few strokes: feeding her dying mother an ice pop and shouting when the corner shop runs out of the right flavors; dressing up a chicken that has spilled from her grocery bag and been run over by a car in the street ("killed twice"); puzzling over the mysterious birds, possibly feral parrots, that land on her London balcony.
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She remembers him puzzling over them when he taught her as a graduate student at M.I.T. "The fact that he didn't find what he expected — it's not so important that it was a null result as much as that it was unexpected — it made me much more interested in randomized trials than I would have been if I thought it was just a way of confirming intuitions you already have," Ms. Duflo said.
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