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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Recent Examples of figure out
California Democrats try to figure out how to win national elections again.
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Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2025
If Rodgers does not join Pittsburgh for the 2025 season, the team will need to scramble to figure out the quarterback situation.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 May 2025
Physicists at the Vienna University of Technology figured out how to reproduce this rotational effect in the lab using laser pulses and precision cameras, according to a paper published in the journal Communications Physics.
—ArsTechnica, 31 May 2025
Hanna-Barbera figured out how to make do with more rudimentary animation, cutting in half the number of original frames per second.
—Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 21 May 2025
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Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2025
If Rodgers does not join Pittsburgh for the 2025 season, the team will need to scramble to figure out the quarterback situation.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 May 2025
Physicists at the Vienna University of Technology figured out how to reproduce this rotational effect in the lab using laser pulses and precision cameras, according to a paper published in the journal Communications Physics.
—ArsTechnica, 31 May 2025
Hanna-Barbera figured out how to make do with more rudimentary animation, cutting in half the number of original frames per second.
—Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 21 May 2025
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Eventually the problem of making safe, fuel-efficient, consumer-friendly automobiles was more or less solved.—
Glenn Adamson,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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With an intention to welcome 1 million foreign workers over the next three years, the plan to solve Spain's overtourism issues has never been more prescient.—
Alex Ledsom,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
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Los Angeles has plenty of questions to answer about the future of the roster, and the front office will be very busy.—
Matt Levine,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 May 2025
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Perhaps a two-week stay in a hospital or rehab facility – with plenty of time to watch and think – would answer this big question: Tell me again; what, exactly, is wrong with immigration?—
Eli Amdur,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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As Forbes reported, this seems to be a result of the relationship between Must and President Donald Trump appearing to unravel, with each attacking the other.—
Erik Sherman,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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But the claim started to unravel as investigators talked to Morales Reyes, who doesn’t speak English fluently, and obtained a handwriting sample from him that was different from the handwriting in the letters, according to court documents.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
5 June 2025
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That development was paused amid a tangle of lawsuits in 2023 and 2024, but is moving forward after the cases were resolved in November and March.—
Nick Rosenberger,
Idaho Statesman,
4 June 2025
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More than 1800 cases have been reviewed by the Pentagon so far, with the vast majority ultimately resolved as likely balloons, drones, debris or animals based on a comprehensive review of available data.—
Devin Dwyer,
ABC News,
4 June 2025
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