figure out
Example Sentences
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You can’t figure out the impact of a Social Security reduction without first knowing where you are now — a step most people have not yet taken if they are not avid financial planners.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
It’s all very silly, but when it’s happening at a million miles an hour and you have to be formulating responses to it, I had to figure out a totally different relationship to the internet.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
“I didn’t want to go two innings trying to figure out how to play defense with Shohei then being out of the game,” Roberts said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
Instead of attacking the reflected image, the octopuses needed to figure out where the stimulus was actually located and move toward it.
From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026
“You know. If you’re going to get all worried about being a grown-up, you might as well figure out what’s going to happen when you’re ninety years old and you die,” Jonah said.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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