Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a difficult problem.
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- noun A complex
riddle orpuzzle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a difficult problem
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Examples
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Last summer's hit "life is but a dream" brain-teaser arrives on pay cable, a perfect opportunity to kick back and try to figure out what's what and what's real all over again.
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Last summer's hit "life is but a dream" brain-teaser arrives on pay cable, a perfect opportunity to kick back and try to figure out what's what and what's real all over again.
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Indeed, Michael Weatherly, who plays Agent Tony DiNozzo, says the "brain-teaser, easter-egg-y... fabricated realities" will bring back characters who have long been dead.
NCIS Celebrates 200 Episodes with an Emotional "What If?" Story 2012
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The rise of ninjas in the tech world is being fueled in part by Amazon. com Inc., the e-commerce giant, which hosts a ninja brain-teaser contest at job fairs and industry events when hiring computer-software writers.
In the Search for a Hot Job Title, Enter the Ninja Geoffrey A. Fowler 2010
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The rise of ninjas in the tech world is being fueled in part by Amazon. com Inc., the e-commerce giant, which hosts a ninja brain-teaser contest at job fairs and industry events when hiring computer-software writers.
In the Search for a Hot Job Title, Enter the Ninja Geoffrey A. Fowler 2010
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The rise of ninjas in the tech world is being fueled in part by Amazon. com Inc., the e-commerce giant, which hosts a ninja brain-teaser contest at job fairs and industry events when hiring computer-software writers.
In the Search for a Hot Job Title, Enter the Ninja Geoffrey A. Fowler 2010
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Updates, 4/5: "Hallström's film fits into several easily identifiable current sub-genres, including the boomer public-history/nostalgia saga, the investigation of media malfeasance and corruptibility drama, the truth vs fiction and artist vs impostor brain-teaser, and so on," notes Godfrey Cheshire in the Independent Weekly.
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The answer to that brain-teaser, it turns out, is the one in Buñuel's SIMON OF THE DESERT, played with minxish aplomb by VIRIDIANA's Silvia Pinal.
Archive 2009-02-08 2009
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The answer to that brain-teaser, it turns out, is the one in Buñuel's SIMON OF THE DESERT, played with minxish aplomb by VIRIDIANA's Silvia Pinal.
Mario of the Desert 2009
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I'm certainly not the first person to pose this question, but it seems more and more of a brain-teaser as we head deeper into the 21st century.
John Eskow: What's the Role of Fiction In a World Gone Completely Berserk? 2009
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