figures

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That pattern has continued to play out, with the Revolutionary Guard and more moderate figures in Iran sometimes issuing contradictory messages.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2026

Senior figures say the Conservatives' ambitions for defence had not been quite matched by the level of funding that had been allocated: their eyes were bigger than their budgets.

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2026

But the pansexual Lestat de Lioncourt transformed them into rebellious, romantic figures, the stuff of adolescent FOMO, as opposed to decaying ghouls.

From Salon • Jun. 13, 2026

Yet the numbers underneath show a more complicated reality: Those figures were led by sales over $1 million, according to the National Association of Realtors.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 13, 2026

Grandpa knew that I wasn’t too good with figures, and he was all the time making up some kind of an old arithmetic problem for me to work on.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls