Thesaurus results for RIDDLED (OUT)

riddled (out)

verb

past tense of riddle (out)

as in solved

to find an answer for through reasoning with the discovery of the Rosetta stone, archaeologists at long last were able to riddle out the mystery of Egyptian hieroglyphics

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Longer life is the achievement of our era, not a problem to be solved.

— Jon Sabes, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2026
While some of the Killing Fields cases outside of League City have been solved, many have not.

— Holly Yan, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of solved

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The Athletic’s Jacob Whitehead, Oliver Kay, Cerys Jones, Conor O’Neill, Nick Miller and Sebastian Stafford-Bloor have taken a look at the window and answered a series of questions.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2026
Choose the few recurring decisions where the stakes are highest—often hiring, promotion and capital allocation—and require the four lenses to be answered before the decision closes.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026

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Later on Saturday, Pezeshkian called on state TV for a revival of the interim deal, which was signed on June 17 but quickly unraveled amid disagreements over what had been agreed, especially on the status of the Strait of Hormuz.

— Reuters, NBC news, 30 Aug. 2026
As curators unraveled the truth behind the images, the album soon made headlines and ignited a debate that reverberated far beyond the museum walls.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of unraveled

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Kemeny said Bast had worked out an interface to get the rotating laser beams, microscopes, cameras, and myriad other components of the experiment to coordinate through a common interface.

— Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2026
Although things worked out, the episode was yet another stark reminder of how exposed his business—and the broader college-athlete placement industry—has become to forces well beyond its control.

— Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of worked out

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If those challenges can be resolved, the 200-MWe concept could become an important test of how fusion technology moves into conventional US power infrastructure.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2026
Acting on an emergency appeal from the administration, the court ruled 5-4 that a federal judge wrongly paused the project until a legal fight could be resolved.

— Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of resolved

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Although some under-16 accounts were initially deleted, Teachman said, children figured out ways to bypass age-verification checks.

— Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
Netflix execs no doubt long ago figured out how to tune out the nattering nabobs of negativism, understanding that such scrutiny — from both consumers and the press — is the unavoidable by-product of success.

— Josef Adalian, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2026

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