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solve (for)

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as in to allow (for)

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figure out

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Adjusting to a disability may involve figuring out what is still possible and how someone wants to move forward.

— Lee Ann Rawlins Williams, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2026
The long-term survival of Hudsonian godwits—and migratory shorebirds more broadly—depends to a significant degree on scientists figuring out what efforts will be most effective.

— Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026

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