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Example Sentences
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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
“You’ve got to survive the fire, and then you’ve got to be able to figure out how to make a living in a landscape that looks very different than it did a week ago.”
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
The company said it plans to bring together government officials, scientists, advocacy groups and competing AI firms in coming months to figure out how such a system could work.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
I just stood there with my mouth open, looking things over, and trying to figure out what was going on.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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