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something hard to understand or explain
why my sister married that guy is still a mystery to my parents
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As the podcast is about exploring the mysteries surrounding the town, the game focuses on investigation over combat.
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Rob Wieland, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Despite our cosmic connection with the sun, there are still numerous scientific mysteries to unravel about this critical star, particularly its magnetic field.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 Oct. 2024
The actors in both timelines are phenomenal and both stories—which weave together in fascinating ways—are great from start to finish, each with its own mysteries to unravel and calamities to endure.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
In this spooky show, teens solve mysteries around their New York neighborhood with the help of a ghost.
—Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 3 Oct. 2024
Showtime’s teen-girl survival chiller owes a good bit of its popularity to its Lost-style mysteries, which have had obsessive Yellowjacketologists dissecting those puzzle-box elements in various online forums.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
Rob Wieland, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Despite our cosmic connection with the sun, there are still numerous scientific mysteries to unravel about this critical star, particularly its magnetic field.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 Oct. 2024
The actors in both timelines are phenomenal and both stories—which weave together in fascinating ways—are great from start to finish, each with its own mysteries to unravel and calamities to endure.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
In this spooky show, teens solve mysteries around their New York neighborhood with the help of a ghost.
—Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 3 Oct. 2024
Showtime’s teen-girl survival chiller owes a good bit of its popularity to its Lost-style mysteries, which have had obsessive Yellowjacketologists dissecting those puzzle-box elements in various online forums.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
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“Mysteries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mysteries. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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