figure into
phrasal verb
figured into; figuring into; figures into
US
: to be included as a part of (something)
Age may figure into the equation.
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Both try to hash out how a family photo figures into the carnage and what role a mysterious woman (Oakland native Daniella Pineda) at the crime scene plays in it.
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Randy Myers, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2025
But in order to slot a Johnson figure into Phyl’s story, Coe gives Cockerill a different life span and — in a somewhat more radical change — presents this forlorn experimentalist as a hero of the British right, who is celebrated in the present day as a special guest at TrueCon.
—Leo Robson, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Whistler elongates the fashionable figures into letter openers, and life into a series of dinner invitations to be sliced open.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
To put that game one figure into context, there were only five primetime events in America last year that pulled in more people.
—Harry Enten, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2025
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Randy Myers, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2025
But in order to slot a Johnson figure into Phyl’s story, Coe gives Cockerill a different life span and — in a somewhat more radical change — presents this forlorn experimentalist as a hero of the British right, who is celebrated in the present day as a special guest at TrueCon.
—Leo Robson, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Whistler elongates the fashionable figures into letter openers, and life into a series of dinner invitations to be sliced open.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
To put that game one figure into context, there were only five primetime events in America last year that pulled in more people.
—Harry Enten, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2025
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“Figure into.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/figure%20into. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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