figure out
Example Sentences
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Each semester, I would take my students to study frustrated users’ attempts to figure out the D.C.
From Slate • Apr. 4, 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
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
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
But on top of all that, she was trying to figure out what on earth he was so upset about.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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