figure

Example Sentences

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Another senior party figure described the operation as "heavy handed" and "completely over the top".

From BBC • May 25, 2026

He said the victim had been "a well-known local figure, a religious leader from Mongbwalu", which is home to 130,000 people.

From Barron's • May 25, 2026

Now, said Turbé, staffers’ time can be spent “doing the baking rather than staring at the paper trying to figure out what they’re supposed to be doing.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

But he was a heroic figure to me as a teenager, very much in the same way that simultaneously, like Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones were, or John Lennon was, or Allen Ginsberg was.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026

I’ll figure out what needs to be done to make Pops’s dream come true so that when Nate’s ready, everything will be all teed up for him.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam