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Six example sentences with conundrum, each labelled with its topic.
The third floor ends in a conundrum of four levers and one door, with no clue anywhere about which order opens it.
Gaming
If a ship keeps its name after every plank is replaced, students meet a conundrum that two thousand years have not settled.
Philosophy
Every cache design runs into the same conundrum, since keeping data fresh and keeping it fast pull in opposite directions.
Technology
Central banks face a conundrum when prices rise while jobs vanish, since the cure for one worsens the other.
Economics
Guarding a seven-foot shooter is a conundrum, since sagging off invites a three and closing out invites a drive.
Basketball
Every marketplace startup faces the same conundrum: buyers will not come without sellers, and sellers wait for buyers.
Startups
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