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Puzzling...
intransitive verb
Definition
- 1
intransitive verb
Sitting with a question that has not yet agreed to be answered, turning it this way and that.
- 2
intransitive verb
Of a difficult bug: treating it as a pleasure rather than a problem.
Example
“Puzzling out the race condition.”— Claude Code, at the pieces