How to Use figure out in a Sentence
figure out
verb
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Her brothers figure out where she’s been and force the two to wed.
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Kari Sonde,
TIME,
21 May 2024
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Please give us time to work with KSP to figure out our next steps.
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Louis Casiano,
Fox News,
19 Sep. 2024
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There was a lot of trying to figure out, back and forth, which way to go.
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Sydney Bucksbaum,
EW.com,
12 Apr. 2024
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And so that’s going to take time to figure out who’s the new you in that system.
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Andrew Greif,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Nov. 2023
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Now the Rangers must figure out how to try to fill the void created by the loss of Scherzer.
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Evan Grant,
Dallas News,
13 Sep. 2023
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None of us could figure out what was going on in his mind.
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Dana Snitzky,
Longreads,
10 June 2020
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Taylor Swift has a lot of tricks up her sleeve, but fans just figured out one of them.
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Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
4 Apr. 2023
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There are no retcons, no plans to figure out what to do 20 issues down the line.
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Richard Newby,
The Hollywood Reporter,
24 Oct. 2023
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So how did Paris Hilton and Carter Reum figure out their baby’s name?
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Lea Veloso,
StyleCaster,
6 Sep. 2024
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As on much of the album, Grande is self-aware enough to figure out her own role in the drama and adds a valuable touch to the song.
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Melissa Ruggieri,
USA TODAY,
8 Mar. 2024
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Cameron figured out how to turn the light on in the bus, Byers-Smith said, so his family could find him.
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Rory Linnane,
Journal Sentinel,
9 Jan. 2024
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While figuring out how to live a life appears at her door.
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Theara Coleman,
theweek,
6 Nov. 2024
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More questions were asked, and Perez agreed to go to the police station to try to help figure out where his dad might be.
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Rachel Clarke,
CNN,
6 Sep. 2024
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In the meantime, the pressure will be on Tweed and her staff to figure out exactly what has gone wrong.
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Kevin Baxter,
Los Angeles Times,
7 July 2024
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Now Hassan was stuck in Las Palmas like the rest of us, trying to figure out his next move.
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Jon Lee Anderson,
The New Yorker,
8 Jan. 2024
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Even when plays didn’t turn out as planned, Franklin figured out a way to make something happen.
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Ryan McFadden,
The Denver Post,
19 May 2024
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Miller Lite has figured out a work-around to Dry January.
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Hannah Kirby,
Journal Sentinel,
26 Feb. 2024
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Beeper’s team had to figure out where to send the messages, what the messages needed to look like, and how to pull them back down from the cloud.
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Chris Welch,
The Verge,
8 Dec. 2023
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Shackled to the bedposts with no chance of rescue, Jessie has to figure out how to survive.
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Danny Horn, James Mercadante, Ilana Gordon,
EW.com,
31 July 2024
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Try to figure out how to celebrate each other and go to the next level.
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Brande Victorian,
The Hollywood Reporter,
4 Nov. 2024
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And our job is to figure out what to harness for this audience.
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Nekesa Mumbi Moody,
The Hollywood Reporter,
12 Dec. 2023
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Still trying to figure out, between the two of us, how to be in partnership.
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Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
11 Oct. 2023
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The first round begins April 27 in Kansas City, but until then, the Ravens have plenty to figure out.
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C.j. Doon,
Baltimore Sun,
19 Apr. 2023
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How can nonexperts figure out what to eat when the experts can’t agree?
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Tamar Haspel,
Washington Post,
28 Mar. 2023
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The campaign that figures out that winning recipe to move these voters to their corner over the next eight weeks will win.
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David Paleologos,
USA TODAY,
5 Sep. 2024
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In August, Noel, 57, was approached in public by a fan and his kids — who tried to figure out the brothers’ beef.
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Ilana Kaplan,
People.com,
10 Oct. 2024
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Trying to figure out how to answer him, the past 18 years of extolling Swift in print flash before my eyes.
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Chris Willman,
Variety,
31 July 2024
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One of the most challenging things about falling in love with the wide world of wine is figuring out how to transport it.
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Hannah Selinger,
wsj.com,
1 Oct. 2023
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Some parents were already on their way to work and had to hurry to figure out pickup plans and child care.
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Nicole Asbury,
Washington Post,
9 Jan. 2024
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The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one.
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Kris Holt,
Forbes,
5 Nov. 2024
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