figure out
Example Sentences
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Upon landing, "take an inventory of yourself to figure out, what condition am I in? Can I even move? Am I even mobile?"
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
“We both kind of knew, you are going to chart a really cool path — we just need to figure out where that is.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
A Magna team recently walked through the St. Clair EV parts factory trying to figure out what equipment might be repurposed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
“And so they have to figure out what’s going on, what they have to bring with them when they go to vote, what do they need to do to register, update their voter registration.”
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026
I tried hard to figure out what it was but I was so scared I couldn’t.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.