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Coltrane was a version of the resurrected black man, much like Malcolm X, a public figure he admired.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

It apparently failed, because they went back to the AI afterward asking it to help figure out what went wrong.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

Jofra Archer cut a frustrated figure when Razaullah hit him for successive straight sixes and at one point Gus Atkinson was asked to bowl bouncers with eight fielders on the boundary.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

She isn’t a figure of pity or depravity, just a woman with the unsteadiness of a fawn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

A black-and-white squashed-skunk figure hugged the branches above, huddled in the safety of the tree, whose boughs were bending into a leafy cage around her.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Wages are also failing to keep up with the rising cost of living, with separate figures showing real average hourly earnings fell by 0.3% over the past year.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Producing those cells can take weeks, and the cost can climb well into six figures.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

In addition, the GfK consumer confidence survey for September will be released Friday, followed by retail sales figures for August.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Oddly, the hero of Mr. Greengrass’s saga is neither of these much-discussed figures but a fictional character known only as Ploughman and played by Andrew Garfield.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

But two small figures stood waiting there for them, anxiously watching the skies for their return: their beloved regimental commander, Major Yevdokia Bershanskaya, and the squadron commander, Nadya Popova.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

She has noted that he is difficult to manage, so I figured she just pawned him off on me now that the company has scaled up.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

"When we figured out what it was, we knew that it was the smoking gun that we'd been looking for."

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

And looming over it all, Japan’s national debt, generally figured at around 230% of GDP, remains the world economy’s greatest imponderable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

“I figured my grandmother was a dancer and I thought maybe I got some of those genes — definitely not,” she continued.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

He had his hand curled up because he hadn't yet figured out anything interesting to do with it.

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry

“We wanted to drive adoption, so in the beginning it was free rein for everyone. And now companies are figuring out that ‘hey, we should be more responsible.’”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

"For a lot of things there's no need to use AI…but for figuring out that six pixels in the distance are an airplane versus some other smudge, it is perfect territory," says Norcia.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

“It’s taking the government’s supervision and enforcement tools and figuring out how you can use them the way the Reaganites used them,” Pierce said.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026

While you’re figuring that out, price out other retirement possibilities, such as living on the beach in California or an apartment in the heart of Boston or New York.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

But sometimes people have trouble figuring that stuff out.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff