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Example Sentences
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They are safety trained and can help figure out the cause.
“They wanted to have a child from, well, a certain kind of man. They saw that kind of father figure as the right one.”
He insisted that I make time to rest and bring him the car owner’s manual, so he could figure out why the check engine light had come on.
From Los Angeles Times
Even headline figures on rising labour participation in India can be misleading: more people "working" does not always mean better or more productive jobs.
From BBC
She tried to figure out who could have sold the story to the newspaper, but no-one knew that level of detail.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.