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To be inscrutable, often through silence. Wiktionary

( 1900) The sphinxèd riddle of the Universe / Nature's unsolved enigma, who may prove? Wiktionary

( 1933) Janet Gaynor, so they tell, is sphinxing it and has gone into a Retirement, with "Nothing to Say — Please Go Away" written on the doormat. Wiktionary

( 1934) The men of science will climb grassy hillsides of [Easter] island to peer at hundreds of great stone faces that have so far out-sphinxed the sphinx in determined silence about the past. Wiktionary

( 1954) "What are you two sphinxing about?" said Jessica, but her husband said Never mind. Wiktionary

( 1964) What with Fisher whole-hogging on one side, and K. of K. sphinxing on the other, Churchill had his work cut out to get any sort of agreement at all. Wiktionary

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sphinx