as in to solve
to find an answer for through reasoning
a book of brainteasers that even a really clever person won't have an easy time figuring out
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The idea, Fuentes-Medel said, is to identify the materials, perhaps through a kind of AI data modeling, and figure out how they can best be recovered and funneled to secondary markets at scale.
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Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 1 Oct. 2025
Teams are allowed to use TV tape and all-22 film to figure out signals on any side of the ball.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
There’s an argument for going out and doing some smaller, more personal film in the meantime, while that gets figured out.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025
Still, Washington is still figuring out just how big of a deal this shutdown will be.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
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Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 1 Oct. 2025
Teams are allowed to use TV tape and all-22 film to figure out signals on any side of the ball.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
There’s an argument for going out and doing some smaller, more personal film in the meantime, while that gets figured out.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025
Still, Washington is still figuring out just how big of a deal this shutdown will be.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for figure out
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Her case has not been solved, though a tape unearthed in 2004 provided some possible assailants, and nothing involving Gein, who was cleared of any connection later in 1957.—
JR Radcliffe,
jsonline.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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Nashville was chosen as one of the stops for fans to solve an international tour.—
Bryan West,
Nashville Tennessean,
5 Oct. 2025
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Sports writer Mike Organ first came to The Tennessean in 1977, at age 14, to answer phones.—
Nicole Young,
Nashville Tennessean,
5 Oct. 2025
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Minasian absolutely could have answered that question.—
Sam Blum,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025
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The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists – two of them American and one Japanese – for unraveling how the immune system protects us from thousands of different microbes trying to invade our bodies.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
6 Oct. 2025
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The Oscar-winning actress stars as Grace, a mother living in Montana who begins to show signs of postpartum psychosis, her mental distress unraveling her relationship with Jackson (Robert Pattinson).—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
6 Oct. 2025
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As in Milwaukee, the callers will impersonate a sheriff deputy and indicate a legal matter needs to be resolved through payment.—
David Clarey,
jsonline.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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Upset about being undercut, the Texas bigwig resolves to put Georgie out of business.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Oct. 2025
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“Figure out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/figure%20out. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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