figure
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A party gone spectacularly wrong gets a laugh, a sinister figure at the window prompts a scream.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
"If we couldn't figure out something, we'd stare out the window until it came to us, and I think we're nostalgic for a time like that."
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Even that modest figure comes with a twist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
If you were to enter the boutique for the first time, you might be greeted by a subversively tailored figure, framed by her signature bold-yet-chic eyeliner and a presence that feels both firm and inviting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Instead I have to untangle all my feelings right now, and figure out how to transform them into a goodbye.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
What the prospectus didn’t say: Those figures meant the number of users fell 48%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
But in the more immediate contest, Republicans need Vance and other party figures to help deliver Trump's voters in an election in which the president himself is absent from the ballot.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
This figures carried "a very real human cost", said Dr Clair Barnes, an extreme weather researcher at Imperial College London.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
The premiums or discounts are reflected in the YTM figures.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
“I know there is some complicated mathematical equation that figures that out, but no, I don’t think it’s a one-to-one ratio thing. We can ask after this is all over.”
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
“But we just put more and more and more on his plate as we figured out, you know, how receptive he was and how smart he was,” Palmer said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
"I felt a mixture of disbelief and anger - at the hackers and at myself. I was also confused until I figured out how they had got me."
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
He figured that no fire could grow large enough to cover that distance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
I figured he was done, until he sat up and hit the wire running.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
“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
“I think we’re still figuring out a lot of stuff,” Klein said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 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
But as time went on, the only thing I was figuring out was how much I didn’t know.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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