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- adjective Having the nature of a
puzzle .
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The nonprofit Coronini Cronberg Foundation, which oversees the library, enlisted Franco Rocco, an Italian architect and sculptor whose work has puzzlelike qualities, to examine the book and its illustrations.
Archive 2008-04-01 Jan 2008
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After a moment, he tried to recall exactly what he had done in Tempre, the puzzlelike untwining of the Talent energy.
Soarer's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2006
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Geometric patterns split the floor into puzzlelike shapes, a series of raised panels stood guard around a column of translucent blue light, and the whole thing seemed to glow.
The Flood Dietz, William 2003
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Rui Grazina, she liked the RG03a jewelry box, a puzzlelike cube with sliding wooden pieces that lock together to hide a precious item. lagarconne.com, she found her favorite: the AC02 Jewel, designed by Saskia Diez.
NYT > Home Page By TIM McKEOUGH 2012
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Rui Grazina, she liked the RG03a jewelry box, a puzzlelike cube with sliding wooden pieces that lock together to hide a precious item. lagarconne.com, she found her favorite: the AC02 Jewel, designed by Saskia Diez.
NYT > Home Page By TIM McKEOUGH 2012
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Rogers drama has a puzzlelike structure, except that puzzles have secrets, not mysteries.
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"Decoded" is less a conventional memoir or artistic manifesto than an elliptical, puzzlelike collage: amid the photo-sharp reminiscences, there are impassioned music history lessons that place rap in a social and political context; enthusiastic shout-outs to the
NYT > Home Page By MICHIKO KAKUTANI 2010
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"Decoded" is less a conventional memoir or artistic manifesto than an elliptical, puzzlelike collage: amid the photo-sharp reminiscences, there are impassioned music history lessons that place rap in a social and political context; enthusiastic shout-outs to the
NYT > Home Page By MICHIKO KAKUTANI 2010
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Hayes's fourth book puts invincibly restless wordplay at the service of strong emotions: a son's frustration, a husband's love, a citizen's righteous anger and a friend's erotic jealousy animate these technically astute, even puzzlelike, lines.
NYT > Home Page By STEPHEN BURT 2010
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This puzzlelike wooden toy basically looks like a preschool child's IQ test.
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