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- noun Plural form of
puzzling .
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Examples
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For a very great time, I pondered this matter; but, finally, with a certain sense of the futility of my puzzlings, I let my thoughts wander to other things.
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From their puzzlings Madlen said: "What will you do?"
My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People Caradoc Evans
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For a very great time, I pondered this matter; but, finally, with a certain sense of the futility of my puzzlings, I let my thoughts wander to other things.
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It suggests the puzzlings of philosophers and theologians -- and, I may add, of psychologists too -- over experiences which they have not shared, are not of great authority for those whose object is to find the secret of the Spirit, and make it useful for life.
The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day Evelyn Underhill 1908
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And as I heard it, I knew that all my trials and disgraces and puzzlings were over, and I turned my head upon Roxanne's back hair and wept tears, the first time in my life -- and I hope not the last.
Phyllis Maria Thompson Daviess 1898
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