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  • noun Plural form of puzzle.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of puzzle.

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Examples

  • She battled them with her word puzzles and arithmetic and songs.

    Deeper Jeff Long 2007

  • She battled them with her word puzzles and arithmetic and songs.

    Deeper Jeff Long 2007

  • "Mebbe the puzzles is all right," Mary considered.

    CHAPTER II 2010

  • On this pleasant-but-overcast holiday morning, I drank some coffee from one of my favorite mugs, watched some C-Span tapes that I've been meaning to get to for a while, and knocked off a couple of crossword puzzles from the "finish later" stack.

    Apologies to William Safire. It was just a hunch, anyway. KaneCitizen 2005

  • On this pleasant-but-overcast holiday morning, I drank some coffee from one of my favorite mugs, watched some C-Span tapes that I've been meaning to get to for a while, and knocked off a couple of crossword puzzles from the "finish later" stack.

    Archive 2005-05-01 KaneCitizen 2005

  • As the solver attempted to unscramble the word puzzles, the experimenter responded out loud “correct” or “incorrect,” while the observer looked on.

    Egonomics David Marcum 2007

  • Before working on the word puzzles, the solvers were asked to estimate how the observers would judge them on things like intelligence, competence, honesty, and so on, both before and after the task.

    Egonomics David Marcum 2007

  • "Mebbe the puzzles is all right," Mary considered.

    Chapter 2 1913

  • These are snap-together models (calling them "puzzles" is a little weird, actually) showing the anatomy of various critters, from humans to cows, mammoths, and my favorites, beetles and snails.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • February 10th, 2009 at 1: 42 pm one thin puzzles me about the plan.

    Matthew Yglesias » Nationalization After All 2009

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