Sentence examples for puzzling discovery from inspiring English sources

That was a puzzling discovery for a woman who grew up in a rectory and whose Protestantism is key to understanding her personality.

This implies that the most puzzling discovery in nature in the 20th century can be put into deep correspondence with that in thoughts in the 19th century.

One puzzling discovery was that Judd's team only found 69 hearths in the ruin; winters are cold at Chaco.

Exactly what an atom was remained to be determined, and there were a few puzzling discoveries, such as cathode rays and radioactivity.

The discovery, in 1977, of the discontinuous structure of eukaryotic genes and the splicing mechanisms that put pieces of genes (exons) together was, beyond doubt, not only one of the most fundamental but also one of the most unexpected and puzzling discoveries in the 20th century biology [ 1, 2].

For example, there have been a number of puzzling discoveries: chiefly, while a protein is known to serve as a universal and essential factor in a fundamental biological process, its mutation, or gain or loss of function can yield a very specific outcome.

In his study of consumer savings, he made the puzzling empirical discovery that consumption behaviour does not fluctuate very much when people are hit by income shocks.

Just as life was puzzling before the discovery of the double helix, free will was puzzling before the discovery of a suitable scientific theory, one that can finally account for the separation between micro and macro level.

Autism is a disorder that has been puzzling since its discovery in 1943.

OTTAWA — It began with a puzzling and grisly discovery in 2009: a car submerged in a 19th-century canal lock with the bodies of three teenage girls and a middle-aged woman inside.

Military officials have been puzzling over the missile discovery for weeks.