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WordBand 6–7Core (NGSL)

mystery

/ˈmɪstəɹi/

noun

book, play, or film that deals with a solution of a strange crime

  • “Consciousness is still a mystery, for both science and philosophy.”Tatoeba
  • “It's still a mystery to us who that guy was.”Tatoeba

Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.

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Source: New General Service List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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