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as in digit
a character used to represent a mathematical value no doubt the figures on the price tags at the jewelry store are so small because the zeroes are so many

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as in outline
a line that traces the outer limits of an object or surface we could gradually see the figure of a ship coming our way through the fog

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as in doll
a small statue painted wooden figures by untrained artists can be quite valuable on today's antiques market

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as in mannequin
a three-dimensional representation of the human body used especially for displaying clothes the museum features a collection of figures strikingly attired in suits of medieval armor

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as in motif
a unit of decoration that is repeated all over something (as a fabric) upholstered the chair with a fabric embossed with figures of fleur-de-lis

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as in diagram
something that visually explains or decorates a text the layout editor could have done a better job of getting the figures on the same page as the specific portion of text that they are intended to illustrate

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as in physique
the type of body that a person has Martha has such a slender figure that just about anything looks good on her

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to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement let's figure the juice in the pan to be about a cup and just add it to the mix

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Recent Examples of figure
Noun
In comparison, the cryptocurrency surpassed $4,900 on August 24, additional Coinbase figures from TradingView reveal. Charles Lloyd Bovaird Ii, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025 The August employment report showed a fall of fifteen thousand in the number of federal employees, which suggests that the DOGE job cuts may be starting to show up in the official figures. John Cassidy, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
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General manager John Lynch raved Thursday about the running back depth, and the early-season offense still figures to lean hard on those ballcarriers until the receiving corps gets back Brandon Aiyuk (after Week 4) and Demarcus Robinson (after Week 3). Cam Inman, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025 But the Rockies’ projected first baseman of the future, the third overall pick in the 2024 MLB draft, is starting to figure it out. Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for figure
Recent Examples of Synonyms for figure
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  • That's up 16% from 512,000 savers who broke into seven digits on their 401(k) statements in the first quarter's turbulent market.
    Susan Tompor, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Since most states only collect the last four digits of Social Security numbers from voters, the latest upgrade swung open the door for many more states to use SAVE.
    Miles Parks, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
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  • For last weekend’s season-opening slate of games, several Texas college football teams sported ribbons of their own, in the form of a special decal on players’ helmets depicting an outline of the state of Texas with a green bow at its center.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Prairie Village’s rules mirror Leawood’s, with similar outlines to age requirements for class 3 e-bikes in particular, yielding and giving audible signals to pedestrians, following manufacturer recommendations and not allowing distracted or reckless operation of the device.
    Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2025
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    Jillian Sederholm, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Other designers—Valentino, Versace, Oscar de la Renta, to name a few—also successfully courted celebrities, but few had as much success as Armani.
    Belinda Luscombe, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
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  • Labubu is a doll that resembles a monster, featuring a large head, sharp teeth and prominent eyes.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Annabelle has been in so many movies now, to the point of being overused (the real doll has even been suspected of paranormal activity recently).
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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  • Objects such as the popular Granny mannequin are considered props, not collection items, Anderson explained.
    Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The first was a mannequin's arm wearing the Pixel Watch 4, bolted to a robot arm that moved back and forth.
    Julian Chokkattu, Wired News, 20 Aug. 2025
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  • Candy didn’t wear that particular internal organ on his sleeve so much as model whole outfits made out of it, and the sheer abundance of his authentic niceness is I Like Me‘s prime running motif.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The other side has a racket motif, a pavé diamond lucky clover and nine diamonds along the outer edge.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
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  • The way to avoid these limitations isn’t to abandon quantum field theory, but rather to go beyond the perturbative approach of Feynman diagrams, and to perform the full analytic calculations demanded by the underlying quantum field theory.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Work with over 250,000 shapes, link diagrams to live data from Excel or Microsoft Entra ID, and generate org charts automatically.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
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  • The Ewpjdk 4-Pack Garden Pruning Shears come with four pruning shears for the price of one and are versatile enough to take on all kinds of fall pruning tasks, like harvesting, clipping, deadheading, and cutting off the final fruits of the season, before winter comes.
    Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2025
  • How much is Powerball lottery ticket price tonight?
    Chris Sims, IndyStar, 7 Sep. 2025

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