How to use "conundrum" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "conundrum" in popular movie and book plots

  • The conundrum forces Mal to a decision to temporarily abandon Zoe, and stage a later rescue – knowing she will be detained by the Alliance upon leaving surgery.  - Serenity: Leaves on the Wind
  • Speeding off on his mission along the dark road and hardly able to keep his breath, Nick is stuck in a conundrum that only becomes clear as it flashes back to a few years earlier.  - Escobar: Paradise Lost
  • Ed gets a lead in this criminal conundrum and follows it to a party.  - Chicago Deadline
  • The conundrum plays out in humorous and dramatic ways and eventually resolves in a pleasant and light-hearted manner.  - How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor
  • An imposing and distant figure, Callie must work up her courage to ask him about her grasshopper conundrum and relay her own theory about why the grasshoppers around the house are two different sizes.  - The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
  • The movie has shades of "One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest", the conundrum illustrated in "Catch-22" and also shows the 'institutionalisation' depicted in "The Shawshank Redemption".  - Manasaare
  • This fact produces a double conundrum as robots are also incapable of appreciating art or being emotionally moved by it, yet there they are.  - Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Prodigy
  • For the reader who follows the clues, the solution to this conundrum is, as usual in the best of this genre, elementary.  - The Fatal Equilibrium

Example sentences for "conundrum" in interesting articles

  • Statisticians deal with this conundrum by saying that things can’t be random, but rather processes can be random and you can define the probability of an event happening as a result of the process.  - Habits of highly mathematical people
  • What’s more, the increase in the last ten years is twice as big as in the previous ten years, so the trend appears to be accelerating.The results solve an ongoing conundrum among researchers involved in scientometrics, the study of science and scientific research.  - The Growing Impact of Old Scientific Papers
  • Given Airbnb’s history of reactive, as opposed to proactive, solutions, I imagine hosts have already found themselves in that conundrum and with the exposure it entails.“What started as a way for a few friends to pay the rent has now transformed into something bigger and more meaningful than we ever imagined.  - Living and Dying on Airbnb
  • Or wait, every sent Message needs a Recipient, so maybe instead Recipient objects should have a ‘receive’ method.This is the conundrum at the heart of object decomposition.  - Object-Oriented Programming: A Disaster Story
  • You could break the “pick 2” conundrum programmers like to quote so often.  - Why I Will Never Feel Threatened by Programmers in India
  • “Increasing domestic production of coal will be a big step towards long-term energy security of India,” he said in a January tweet.“India’s conundrum is a coal conundrum,” says Jairam Ramesh, a former minister of the environment.  - Can India modernize without relying heavily on coal?
  • John Graham-Cumming Wednesday, August 31, 2011 A security conundrum in Between Silk and Cyanide One of the advantages of being a fairly public person (having written a book and having a popular-ish blog) is that I have a small coterie of regular correspondents who send me interesting links and thoughts.  - Weird World War II Security Puzzle
  • But to Dyson this is really only one more charged conundrum attracting his interest just as nuclear weapons and rural poverty have.  - The Global Warming Heretic - NYTimes On Freeman Dyson
  • LONDON: It's the age-old question that has puzzled the finest minds for thousands of years — which came first: The chicken or the egg? Now, scientists claim to have finally discovered the answer to the conundrum — it's the chicken which came first.  - Chicken came first
  • As Anderson put it to me, “I told the Governor . . . I did not come here to phase the district out.” Anderson acknowledged the successes of the top charter schools, but Newark faced the conundrum common to almost every urban school system: how to expand charters without destabilizing traditional public schools.  - A Test for School Reform in Newark
  • Who knows what all the facts ultimately were, for example, when a Philadelphia school district was sued by the parents of a 15-year-old for allegedly viewing him at home via remote Webcam on his school-issued laptop? What did happen is that a $610,000 settlement was reached. Yet one fact might fascinate some in this peculiar conundrum in which--if the accusations prove true--the school district behaved uncomfortably: You have to be 13 to have a Facebook account. Facebook's rules are very clear on this.  - 12-year-old sues school district over Facebook profile search

Meaning of "conundrum" in English

  • a difficult problem

Meaning of "conundrum" in Hindi

  • पहेली ( Paheli, pahelee)
  • समस्या ( Samasya, samasyaa)
  • समस्या

Synonyms of "conundrum"

  • enigma
  • brain teaser
  • riddle

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