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A suave, Tufts-educated figure, Mubarak sits on Abu Dhabi’s powerful Executive Council and helps oversee the country’s vast wealth funds and some of its biggest state-owned enterprises.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The defender is a key player for her club but struggles to break into the England team with Bronze understandably a tough figure to displace.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The minuscule yet distinctly humanoid figure of a fairy flaps its wings as it flies into the ancient ruins of a bygone kingdom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

The AQI converts measurements of pollutants into a single figure indicating air quality and potential health risks.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

He was a young man and altogether a more modern figure, in low shoes.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Hot Wheels, games and action figures sales grew.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Jeffrey Bartash dug into the latest unemployment figures to describe a “low-hire, low-fire” job market.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

China’s September trade and inflation figures, due Wednesday, will show whether exports remain a source of strength for the world’s second-largest economy as higher food and energy costs add to price pressures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

But it said because some of these figures date back nearly a decade it was not possible to be absolutely certain or conclude over-diagnosis was currently occurring at scale.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Not a different Regan and Elliot, I reminded myself as we watched the figures disappear around the corner—a past version of ourselves.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

El-Sayed has figured out how to talk to the people who love Fox without pretending that the network is something it isn’t.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026

Companies that sell electricity have finally figured out a way to make money off the data center boom without ending up on the wrong side of the political fight against data centers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

"We have figured out a new technique that allows us to see the effects of a single quark in the QGP, through a different pair of particles," Lee says.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

“I speculate he saw that note or somehow figured out she was going to institutionalize him, but I have no idea.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

I figured that the sticks would take up too much room in the sack.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Asking about the connection you want with a person is a way of figuring it out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Moving forward, the real policy challenge will revolve around transparency, the enforceability of existing laws and simply figuring out what type of disclosure would be helpful to voters.

From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2026

Woodwork and Freddie will be merged into a single Grindr Health user experience, Arison said, though he added that the company was still figuring out branding details.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Mwedziwendira is now figuring out how to build her West Coast clientele after starting EP Studio, a Washington, D.C., creative studio and PR firm, a year ago.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

I would have to start by drawing what I wanted, then figuring out how to translate it into knit stitches, but if I could pull it off...

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows