Why does it take stockfish depth 35 to find mate in 7? - Chess Stack Exchange

My underlying question here is: What is depth? I know depth is supposedly the number of half-moves or plies from the starting position that it has calculated, in at least one line. But I feel this

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Stockfish fails to solve this puzzle on depth 25. White to move and win : r/ chess

How come Stockfish predicts mate in 26-24 moves, I make a different move that seems more logical to me, and it jumps down to mate in 14 moves (I'm not claiming to

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