conundrum
IPA: kʌnˈʌndrʌm
noun
- A difficult question or riddle, especially one using a play on words in the answer.
- A difficult choice or decision that must be made.
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Examples of "conundrum" in Sentences
- It deals with the above conundrum.
- That is the conundrum of infeasible problems.
- The solution to this conundrum is rather simple.
- So this is the conundrum of being on the cutting edge.
- Freedom of the presses is an old and complex conundrum.
- The end of the last quoted sentence poses a similar conundrum.
- I was wondering if you had solved the conundrum in the meantime.
- The conundrum was what would happen if the program had succeeded.
- The ethicists who testified at the hearing were obtuse to this conundrum.
- There is a conundrum put forth in the story of blind men and an elephant.
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