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figure out

verb as in crack

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“Maybe it is time for us all to get together and figure out how we clean up the mess that the Gonzalez bill put into play.”

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“As of a few years ago, it was very clear to me that this is what I’ve got to do to figure out what I want to do next,” he says.

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For the word “cat,” for example, they must be able to segment the sound C-A-T, and then figure out what happens if they remove the C- sound.

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“The exact model will take some trial and error to figure out, but we plan to start very soon,” Altman wrote.

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He has the rest of his life to figure out what comes next.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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