How to Use conundrum in a Sentence
conundrum
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The bright side of this conundrum is the opportunity to construct lovely and light-bodied cold soups.
— Rebecca White, Dallas News, 27 July 2021 -
One standard approach to the conundrum is to slip as many floors as possible inside the shell, which in turn means minimizing floor-to-floor heights.
— Justin Davidson, Curbed, 12 Dec. 2024 -
This has been a conundrum for CNN that has no perfect answer, no perfect solution.
— Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2021 -
They were mired in guilt over their own destructive desires and actions, a classic psychoanalytic conundrum.
— Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 22 July 2021 -
So here’s a solution for the 2021 back-to-school, back-to-the-office lunch conundrum: five delicious lunch ideas that work for everyone.
— Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2021 -
The answer to that conundrum occupies much of Billy Summers (out Aug. 3).
— Clark Collis, EW.com, 15 July 2021 -
The conundrum for Wisconsin is whether an offense handled so exclusively by the previous play caller can work under someone else in less than a week.
— Jesse Temple, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024 -
The conundrum threatened to force millions of Americans who lost incomes during the pandemic out of their homes in an appalling twist to what has already been an agonizing year.
— Tierney Sneed, CNN, 9 Aug. 2021 -
How to resolve this conundrum is for employers and employees to negotiate mutually acceptable, respectful agreements on when and where to do their work.
— Michele Weldon, Chicago Tribune, 18 Nov. 2024 -
This shape-shifting is Audi's attempt to answer a conundrum facing automotive designers.
— Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 14 Aug. 2021 -
Yet at the core of this conundrum is the question of trust.
— Star Tribune, 13 Jan. 2021 -
And so what the court set up in 1997 was this conundrum.
— NBC News, 24 June 2018 -
At the scene that night, Vasquez stood at the center of a tragedy and a conundrum.
— Seyward Darby, Longreads, 13 Dec. 2022 -
The conundrum of that ad wasn’t lost on the author Rona Jaffe.
— Apoorva Tadepalli, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2023 -
Catch up quick: The dam has long been a conundrum for the county.
— Kyle Stokes, Axios, 2 Aug. 2024 -
Putting the two side by side gives us the Obama conundrum.
— Armond White, National Review, 14 July 2017 -
Hats have long been the source of quite a packing conundrum.
— Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2021 -
The conundrum began with the bases loaded and one out in the sixth inning.
— Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 6 July 2021 -
Dr. Faust said of the conundrum facing many of her peers.
— Rachel L. Swarns, New York Times, 10 July 2016 -
Finding the right pair of dress shoes is quite a conundrum.
— Michelle Rostamian, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2023 -
Barra is now faced with the conundrum about what to do about Cruise.
— Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023 -
Now, for the real conundrum: choosing the best games to play first.
— WIRED, 19 Nov. 2022 -
The formula that beats this conundrum came to me on a golf course.
— Gaurav Kumar, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023 -
So Trump is not having -- this is the conundrum for Trump.
— Fox News, 6 Aug. 2018 -
Here are five things to know about the cookie conundrum.
— Jeanne Houck, The Enquirer, 14 Mar. 2023 -
And along with all those leaves comes the annual conundrum ― what to do with the leaves.
— Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 11 Oct. 2024 -
The modern-day version of this conundrum is why smug Robert from sales got the job and not you.
— Sarah Todd, Quartz, 15 Oct. 2021 -
There are a variety of ways to solve this conundrum — but the time to talk it out is now.
— Michael Schneider, Variety, 10 Aug. 2022 -
Nothing eases the conundrums of life like a chance to twist and shout.
— David Sturm, Howard County Times, 18 May 2018 -
That is the conundrum at the heart of the creator economy.
— Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2024
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