Puzzle Palace

proper noun

The headquarters of the National Security Agency.

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Meanings

proper nounthe Puzzle Palace
  1. USslangThe headquarters of the National Security Agency.

    There hadn't been such a sense of united urgency in the Puzzle Palace since Dixon had ordered the bombings in the Middle East.

    2008, Eddy Shah, Second World, page 110
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    In just the seven short years of my career, I’d climbed from maintaining local servers to crafting and implementing globally deployed systems—from graveyard-shift security guard to key master of the puzzle palace.

    2019 September 17, Edward Snowden, Permanent Record, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN
Cite this entry
APA

Puzzle Palace. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Puzzle%20Palace

MLA

“Puzzle Palace.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Puzzle%20Palace. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Puzzle Palace,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Puzzle%20Palace.

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