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n. reasoning, logic. vb. (present participle of figure out English)
Usage examples of "figuring out".
Now get the hell out of here so I can start figuring out how to save a squadron commander's neck when I file my report.
When it comes to work and travel or a fighting situation, I can come up with answers, but I never was any good at figuring out why folks turned to evil.
Azi learn a lot about how to be good and how to do their jobs, but they're not very good at figuring out what to do with things they've never met before.
What matters is that I'm convinced it is their belief and that they are even now figuring out a way to arrive at an accommodation - for want of a better word - with the British and Americans.
He had a knack for sizing up suspects immediately, but when it came to figuring out his own wife, forget it.
Each foundation had to be cut precisely, and even with the mech section of Maintenance at my disposal, figuring out the proper pattern took I don't know how many days.
If I didn't want it to end badly, I'd better start figuring out how to get out of it without getting swallowed up in faerie politics.
Which wasn't smart policy, which wasn't what he wanted to live with, which wasn't the man he'd seen for about two beats when Christian was figuring out how and on what ship to dump him.
His problem was figuring out why the Feds were camped on Faith instead of on the folks who were laundering stolen Russian jewelry in America.
Maybe they still did with him, but he had some figuring out to do.
No matter how far removed from the affairs of wild Big Uglies she was, she had no trouble figuring out what he meant.